PSYC 3480 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Middle Ages, Heterosexism, Stereotype Threat
17 Apr 2013
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We live in a sea of stereotypes. For example: birth order amount of education and political beliefs. Stereotypes are the beliefs and assumptions that we associate with different types of people. Primarily focus on gender-stereotypes: the beliefs that we associate with females and males. Some gender stereotypes partially accurate: ex: men less likely to ask for directions than females. No stereotype can accurately describe all women and all men however we all hold stereotypes. Prejudice an emotional reaction toward a particular group of people usually refers to a negative attitude but can also be positive. Discrimination refers to biased treatment of a particular group of people. Systematic pattern of how women and men are portrayed women seen as the second sex represented as being inferior to men. We know little how half of humanity have faired throughout history. Archeologists look at tools that men used for hunting.
