According to the social cognitive approach to stereotypes,
a. people tend to "lump together" men and women into the same category.
b. people must use considerable processing time before they decide whether an individual is a male or a female.
c. people tend to split the world into two categories on the basis of a person's gender.
d. stereotypes are created in order to discriminate against certain classes of people.
C
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