Author Question: Social psychologists suggest that the reason stereotypes are automatically activated is that they ... (Read 19 times)

tiara099 · **on:** Aug 23, 2018

Social psychologists suggest that the reason stereotypes are automatically activated is that they become and are thus spontaneously activated when we encounter a member or members of a stereotyped group.

a. increasingly complicated
b. increasingly negative
c. impossible to change
d. overlearned

Question 2

Stereotypes about older adults are

a. positive.
b. negative.
c. both positive and negative.
d. irrelevant because people take other factors into consideration when forming impressions of older persons.