AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -“STEREOTYPE-A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.”

Detailed explanation-2: -A stereotype is a belief or set of beliefs that are fixed and usually wrong, in a manner that it generalizes a certain subject or object for which the stereotype is used.

Detailed explanation-3: -A stereotype is a widely held, simplified, and essentialist belief about a specific group. Groups are often stereotyped on the basis of sex, gender identity, race and ethnicity, nationality, age, socioeconomic status, language, and so forth. Stereotypes are deeply embedded within social institutions and wider culture.

Detailed explanation-4: -: an often unfair and untrue belief that many people have about all people or things with a particular characteristic.

Detailed explanation-5: -The term stereotype comes from the French adjective stéréotype and derives from the Greek words (stereos), “firm, solid” and (typos), impression, hence “solid impression on one or more ideas/theories."