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tiara099

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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.


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shaquita

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Reply #1 on: Aug 23, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANSWER: d

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER: c


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Reply 2 on: Aug 23, 2018
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