Author Question: When you meet a new person, stereotypes typically serve to ____. a. establish what you want that ... (Read 73 times)

washai · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

When you meet a new person, stereotypes typically serve to ____.

a. establish what you want that person to be like
b. warn you about problems or dangers that the individual presents
c. guide the assumptions that you have about the individualwhich you will hold on to no matter what
d. provide you with hypotheses to be tested about that individual

Question 2

Ursula believes that traits and abilities as fixed at birth and remain the same no matter what. By contrast, Yuri believes that people develop their traits and abilities across time, and that they can become better and better with practice. Social psychologists would say that Ursula is a(n) ____ while Yuri is a(n) ____.

a. collectivist; individualist
b. individualist; collectivist
c. incremental theorist; entity theorist
d. entity theorist; incremental theorist