Health Sciences 2711A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Implicit Stereotype, Ageism, Clopidogrel
20 Feb 2018
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Session outline: language, beliefs, stereotypes, age discrimination, age stratification, structural lag, perceptions of older adults, communication predicament of aging model, communication enhancement model. Language and aging: what are the ways in which we call older adults, negative. Beliefs and aging: beliefs are ideas about what is true. Beliefs are the core; everyone has beliefs on various topics, like older adults. It is seen as something that is inherently bad: adults under 65 believes that the following were problems for most people over age 64. Stereotypes: a bunch of beliefs we have towards anybody, stereotypes are composites of beliefs that we attribute to categories of people, tends to be culture specific. There are many culture in which we are living (e. g. being a canadian . All those different cultures affect your beliefs and can contribute to stereotypes: categorize people to reflect the value hierarchies within culture, affect life chances for older people.
