Humans have this rare habit of criticizing certain individuals without giving them a chance of getting to know the person first. Most of the time their criticism is based only on stereotypes and misconceptions that are far from being true. A stereotype is an adopted mental image or idea towards a particular group of people based on observations or simply assumptions. When stereotyping, people infer that a person has a whole range of characteristics and assume all members of that group have them as well. A misconception is an incorrect view or opinion that is based on faulty thinking or facts. Stereotypes and misconceptions are sometimes created when people don't want to take the time to get to know the whole group first, therefore their judgment
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Stereotypes have many ways of being formed. They are sometimes used to save time. A research about cognitive psychology has shown that people stereotype because once they have categorized the individual it satisfies the need of having to consider information about each individual of the group. A member of a group might act a certain different way than the rest of its group and commits a mistake now all because of that member's actions people will assume that the whole group contains the same characteristics and behaves the same way. There are no such thing as positive stereotypes. All stereotypes are negative. Even if a person tries to use a positive stereotypes towards a certain group there is always going to be someone that will think differently disagree with it and transform it to a negative …show more content…
Many people tend to get confused and think that misconceptions and stereotypes are the same thing. However, what makes misconceptions different from stereotypes is that they are completely false and have no evidence to prove right. They are also harder to find in a group of people and stereotypes can be founded on at least one member of the group. A typical example of misconception can be the belief that the Earth revolves around the Sun. Technically, the Earth does not orbit around the Sun. The Sun, Earth, and rest of the planets orbit around the center of mass of the solar system. This is an incorrect statement that is based on no truth which makes it a
Stereotypes have many ways of being formed. They are sometimes used to save time. A research about cognitive psychology has shown that people stereotype because once they have categorized the individual it satisfies the need of having to consider information about each individual of the group. A member of a group might act a certain different way than the rest of its group and commits a mistake now all because of that member's actions people will assume that the whole group contains the same characteristics and behaves the same way. There are no such thing as positive stereotypes. All stereotypes are negative. Even if a person tries to use a positive stereotypes towards a certain group there is always going to be someone that will think differently disagree with it and transform it to a negative …show more content…
Many people tend to get confused and think that misconceptions and stereotypes are the same thing. However, what makes misconceptions different from stereotypes is that they are completely false and have no evidence to prove right. They are also harder to find in a group of people and stereotypes can be founded on at least one member of the group. A typical example of misconception can be the belief that the Earth revolves around the Sun. Technically, the Earth does not orbit around the Sun. The Sun, Earth, and rest of the planets orbit around the center of mass of the solar system. This is an incorrect statement that is based on no truth which makes it a