AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Prejudice often begins in the form of a stereotype-that is, a specific belief or assumption about individuals based solely on their membership in a group, regardless of their individual characteristics.

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 fixed, over generalized belief about a particular group or class of people. A key disadvantage of stereotypes is that it makes us ignore differences between individuals; therefore we think things about people that might not be true (i.e. make generalizations).

Detailed explanation-4: -Stereotypes are characteristics that society instinctively attributes to groups of people to classify them according to age, weight, occupation, skin colour, gender, etc. Sexual stereotyping involves associating girls and boys with separate and, at times, opposing sets of characteristics.

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.