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sheilaspns

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How is social categorization similar to, and different from, the kind of general categorization that people do vis--vis objects?
 
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The self-serving bias refers to people's tendency to think that others are more similar to them than they really are when it comes to their faults and weaknesses.
 
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Answer to Question 1

a . Possible Response Points:
i. According to the textbook, the tendencies to engage in general categorization and social categorization (regardless of content) are remarkably similar.
1 . Both tendencies seem to be innately programmed in people. Both help people to navigate the world by allowing them to form quick hypotheses about how people/things will behave/function, whether they pose threats, etc.
2 . Moreover, with both people and objects, there is a tendency for to make use of prototypes/stereotypes as well as subtyping.
3 . Similarly, in both cases there is a tendency to engage in the confirmation bias.
ii. What is different about social categorization is that people are more emotionally vested (and less purely cognitively driven). Social categorizations are therefore likely to be more difficult to alter than other types of categorizations.

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