Social Psych - Sterotypes and social categorisation

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1. Two studies support the idea that stereotypes change as society does, on is Fiske et al.'s (2002) stereotype content model, what is the other?

  • Kunda & Spencer (2003)
  • Lightman (1999)
  • The princeton triliogy studies
  • Quinn & Macrea (2005)
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2. What is stereotype activation?

  • Crying because youre going to fail
  • The use of activated stereotypes in judgements
  • The degree to which a stereotype is accessible in the mind
  • The process of society creating new stereotypes

3. Rosch (1978) showed that categories have ___ boundaries and revolve around a ____.

  • distinct, individual personalities
  • fuzzy, central prototype
  • distinct, central protoype
  • fuzzy, individual personalities

4. Fiske et al.'s sterotype content model (2002) showed that...

  • competence and warmth respectively followed percieved staus and competition
  • People were more likely to stereotype after seeing soeone of the respective social category
  • IAT score show more bias when sterotypes are primed/activated
  • People use social categorisation to simplify complex social lives

5. What is the arguement against social categorisation being automatic?

  • We only socially categorise when it is beneficial to us
  • Mere exposure to a person isn't enough to start categorisation; if social categorisation simplifies our world we shouldn't do it when it's not necessary
  • Social categorisation actually takes up more cognitive resources and therfore makes our lives more complex
  • We don't socially categorise people that we know very well

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