A diversity awareness consultant submits a proposal to a company that wants to reduce stereotyping and prejudice. In the proposal, the consultant claims that his training program teaches employees to avoid the stereotyping process altogether when perceiving the world around them. "Our training will prevent the activation of stereotypes and other forms of categorical thinking," claims the consultant's proposal. Discuss the accuracy of this consultant's claim and explain what training programs can do regarding stereotyping.
What will be an ideal response?
The textbook explains how people cannot avoid stereotyping. It is a natural process (called
categorical thinking) that helps us to organize information for long-term memory. Without
categorical thinking, it would be difficult to retain as much information about the world around us. Thus, we cannot prevent the activation of stereotyping.
What training can do is minimize the application of stereotypic information in our decisions and actions. When perceiving someone, we can try to avoid relying on the stereotypic information
The textbook explains how people cannot avoid stereotyping. It is a natural process (called
categorical thinking) that helps us to organize information for long-term memory. Without
categorical thinking, it would be difficult to retain as much information about the world around us. Thus, we cannot prevent the activation of stereotyping.
What training can do is minimize the application of stereotypic information in our decisions and actions. When perceiving someone, we can try to avoid relying on the stereotypic information
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