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


ANSWER: d

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