Mike believes that men are generally better at math and engineering than are women. He also tends to think of women as being emotional and a bit "soft."

Mike recently met Karen, an attractive woman who is also a civil engineer. In most other respects, Karen fits Mike's ideas about women. Rather than revise his stereotype of women, Mike probably assumed that Karen represents a(n) ________.
A) aberration
B) schema
C) recategorization
D) subtype
E) implicit association


Answer: D

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