How are stereotypes similar to other concept representations?
What will be an ideal response?
Some researchers have proposed that stereotypes are a kind of prototype representation of social categories. For example, when we are trying to categorize an object as either a fruit or an animal we do so by comparing the features of the object to the features typically associated with the categories of fruits and animals. If we decide that the object is a fruit, we may infer that it has other properties of fruits that we may not have directly observed in it. Using stereotypes may operate in a similar fashion. When we meet somebody new, we may attempt to classify them into a particular social category based on a set of observed features. Once we classify them as belonging to a particular category, we may infer that they have other features that are typically shared by members of that category.
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