Stereotype Application/Origin/Threat - Exam 4 Flashcards
People can ________ stereotypes whether they ______ _____ ___ _ __.
- describe
- personally believe them or not
We ______ need to _____________ for them to be _________________.
- do not
- consciously endorse stereotypes
- automatically activated
Stereotypes can ___________________.
influence our behavior whether or not we believe them
Stereotypes are ________________ under certain conditions, which is ____________. But if people aren’t ________, they can _____________.
- automatically triggered
- difficult to control/stop
- deeply prejudiced
- suppress automatic stereotyping
2-Step Stereotyping Process
1 - Perceiving a member of a group automatically activates stereotypes about that group // unconscious process
2 - People can then engage in deliberative processes and choose to disregard or ignore the automatically activated stereotype // conscious, effortful process
unconscious process
associated with step 1
- not controlled
When are people more likely to apply stereotypes?
high emotive states, when hungry, when tired, when distracted/multitasking
Where do stereotypes come from?
social categorization
Social categorization definition
- an automatic tendency to mentally sort things/people into groups
- theorized that it makes the world easier to think about/process
Top People Categorizations
1 - gender
2 - race
3 - age
Categorization is __________, but it is a ____________ towards stereotyping.
- not stereotyping
- necessary step
In order to stereotype, you need to _____________ and ______________.
- identify a category
- have a belief about that category
Stereotype threat definition
implicit activation of a sociocultural stereotype can influence the performance of the stereotyped individual
Harvard Study of Asian-American Women College Sutudents
found that women probed with race related questions did better on the math problems than the ones who were probed with gender questions
