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lilldybug07

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How can stereotyping serve the goal of seeking mental efficiency? Provide an example that illustrates this process.
 
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What are authoritarianism and social dominance orientation? How are they related to prejudice?
 
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Answer to Question 1

Answer: Stereotypes are mental shortcuts that allow us to infer the characteristics of an individual based solely on his/her group membership and the characteristics we associate with that group. Stereotyping saves us the mental effort involved in trying to ascertain, for each person, what his/her characteristics are.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: Students need to define each and then describe how persons high on one or both of these are more likely to hold negative prejudices.





 

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