![]() ![]() The duplicate printing plate, or the stereotype, is used for printing instead of the original. The term was first used in the printing trade in 1798 by Firmin Didot, to describe a printing plate that duplicated any typography. The term stereotype comes from the French adjective stéréotype and derives from the Greek words στερεός ( stereos), "firm, solid" and τύπος ( typos), impression, hence "solid impression on one or more ideas/ theories." ![]() Even in the social sciences and some sub-disciplines of psychology, stereotypes are occasionally reproduced and can be identified in certain theories, for example, in assumptions about other cultures. Within psychology and across other disciplines, different conceptualizations and theories of stereotyping exist, at times sharing commonalities, as well as containing contradictory elements. These thoughts or beliefs may or may not accurately reflect reality. 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. For example, one can have beliefs that women and men are equally capable of becoming successful electricians but at the same time many can associate electricians more with men than women. Implicit stereotypes are automatic and involuntary associations that people make between a social group and a domain or attribute. “Implicit stereotypes are built based on two concepts, associative networks in semantic (knowledge) memory and automatic activation”. Implicit stereotypes are those that lay on individuals' subconsciousness, that they have no control or awareness of. If person A is making judgments about a particular person B from a group G, and person A has an explicit stereotype for group G, their decision bias can be partially mitigated using conscious control however, attempts to offset bias due to conscious awareness of a stereotype often fail at being truly impartial, due to either underestimating or overestimating the amount of bias being created by the stereotype. Explicit stereotypes Īn explicit stereotype refers to stereotypes that one is aware that one holds, and is aware that one is using to judge people. Stereotypes are sometimes overgeneralized, overanalyzed, and inaccurate, and resistant to new information, but can sometimes be accurate. The type of expectation can vary it can be, for example, an expectation about the group's personality, preferences, appearance or ability. ![]() It is an expectation that people might have about every person of a particular group. In social psychology, a stereotype is a generalized belief about a particular category of people. Police officers buying doughnuts and coffee, an example of perceived stereotypical behavior in North America. ![]()
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