AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -In social psychology, a stereotype is any thought widely adopted about specific types of individuals or certain ways of behaving intended to represent the entire group of those individuals or behaviors as a whole. These thoughts or beliefs may or may not accurately reflect reality.

Detailed explanation-2: -: to believe unfairly that all people or things with a particular characteristic are the same. It’s not fair to stereotype a whole group of people based on one person you don’t like.

Detailed explanation-3: -A stereotype is a thought that someone has about specific types of individuals that may or may not accurately reflect reality. Stereotypes can also be thought of like caricatures, which are pictures that exaggerate certain features while oversimplifying others and end up distorting the essence of an individual.

Detailed explanation-4: -The word is French in origin: stéréotype. Stéré-correlates to English’s stere-; both mean “solid.” Stereotypes were not moving (or movable) type, but solid type.

Detailed explanation-5: -Stereotypes are usually defined as beliefs about groups, prejudice as evaluation of or attitude toward a group, and discrimination as behavior that systematically advantages or disadvantages a group.