AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Stereotyping is an idea that many people have about a thing or a group that may often be untrue or only partly true. Everyone is susceptible to stereotyping. People are stereotyped regarding age, appearance, occupation, race, gender, socio-economic status, etc.

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: -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."

Detailed explanation-4: -Stereotypical describes an action or a characterization that is oversimplified, widely imitated, or handed down by tradition. As in Aesop’s Fables, stereotypical characters behave predictably, or according to type, which, in Greek, literally means to strike in a mold or an impression.

Detailed explanation-5: -1. Definition of Stereotypes. Stereotypes simply mean cognitive representations of another group that influence our feelings toward members of that. group. Lippman (1922) refers to stereotypes as “pictures in our heads.”