Provide one positive and one negative outcome of stereotyping

What will be an ideal response?


Some positive reasons we stereotype are that stereotyping allows us to react quickly in dangerous situations, and stereotyping allows us to organize/categorize information. Some negative results of stereotyping occur when we fail to recognize diversity within groups, we stereotype and when we make negative attributions about others based on little personal information.

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What will be an ideal response?

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Which of the following factors is always present in a crisis?

a. people b. physical violence c. cataclysmic action d. intentional harm

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Shondra's speech will help her audience learn how to plant a rose garden. What strategy should she use?

A. persuasive B. entertaining C. informative D. forensic

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Meetings should always begin

A. at the designated time. B. 10 minutes after the designated time. C. only when all the participants have arrived. D. five minutes after the designated time.

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