Non-Verbal Stereotypes

Regarding your understanding of the IAT: What does the IAT measure and how is it different from explicit tests of prejudice? (This will be lengthy and there is punishment for plagiarism)

I consider you have exposed a great discussion. To understand why people behave a certain way we use something called attributional processes. Frequently, we tend to leap to conclusions that people’s behavior is due to some characteristics of their personality rather than to some aspects of the circumstances in which we are. Stereotypes are dispositional negative attributions, (Aronson, Wilson, & Akert, 2007). Stanger and Crandal (2000) consider that it seems that stigma develops out of an initial, collectively held motivation to avoid danger followed often by an exaggerated perception of features that promotes threat and accompanied by social sharing of these perceptions with others. What is more, they conclude that stigmas for the most part

On a daily bases people make excuses for everything. Everything meaning our actions and the things that we say. Common things that we make excuse for deal with sexist, racist, and heterosexist comments. Sexist is classified as saying that one sex is better than the other. An example of this is someone calling a male or female something that they are not. I do not like this because we are all humans and deserve to be respected and not called something that is degrading. We all know that racist is downgrading one race compared to another. An example of this is, saying that all black people are loud and ghetto. We all act the same but some people do certain things different from others. That’s just there way of living. I do not think that just because one person acts one way the whole race does also. Heterosexist is defined as heterosexuality is better than all other expressions. An example of this would be talking about how a guy dresses and calling him gay. I do not agree with this as well because it is good to stand out and be your own person not matter how others see you.

What if I were to tell you that you that for the rest of your life, you would be unfairly judged, and possibly even discriminated against, based on false perceptions and ideas gathered from influences that only resemble you in the vaguest of ways, most likely being, skin color? And what if no matter how an individual person chooses to carry oneself, they will still commonly be regarded as a member of said misconceptions? Enter, stereotype: “A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.”(1)

Tennis superstar Serena Williams faced doubt from her healthcare team when she informed them that she believed she was experiencing a postnatal pulmonary embolism(Haskell 2018). She had a history of attaining life-threatening blood-clots yet, according to her cover story in Vogue, her nurse believed her pain medicine was causing her confusion. Williams knew she needed a cat scan and a heparin drip and it wasn’t until her doctor was finally called that she received the treatment she needed. Unfortunately, her story is not the only one. In a BuzzFeed video titled My Doctor Didn’t Believe My Pain, women narrate experiences in which they struggled to receive proper healthcare all due to doctors’ disbelieve in their symptoms. These women fought,

MISCONCEPTION IS BORN OUT OF MISCOMMUNICATION. WHEN STUDENTS GRADUATE THINKING THAT TOMATOES ARE VEGETABLES AND BEING UNSURE ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “DESSERT” AND “DESERT”, YOU’D COME TO BELIEVE THAT THEY HAVE HAD AN UNSUCCESSFUL LEARNING EXPERIENCE. IN SOME WAY, I’D DESCRIBE MY UNSUCCESSFUL LEARNING EXPERIENCE AT SCHOOL AS SUCCESSFUL.

The Society is all the same and isolated.“I can tie them myself she complained and I always have… I don't like hair ribbons. I am glad I only have to wear them one more year.” (Lowry 39). I believe that every girl should not need to wear their hair the same length and style.“Did you know that there were really elephants? Live ones?......”Right she said skeptically. Sure Jonas” (Lowry 95I love Elephants and other “unknown” and “fake” animals that are not known there.“How could you describe a sled without describing a hill and snow; and how could you describe a hill and snow to someone who had never felt height and wind or that feathery, magical cold?” (Lowry 85)Snow and seasons are so fun and beautiful in their own ways and I feel that it would be torture to live without them.

What are stereotypes?Can they hurt people?Or even help someone?Well stereotypes are generalizations that everyone puts any given group of people under, now saying this from personal experience i find that there may be both positive and negative effects of others doing this. The ways i have experienced stereotypes range from my own parents to random people like teachers and peers, what i got the most was that I was childish and immature from mostly my Dad and that “typical teenage boy” from my teachers also even i told myself i was more mature than the peers around me.

The videos “The Hidden Messages in Kids Movie” and “Negative Disney Stereotypes” were very informative. I found these videos very interesting and insightful. I do agree that their are many hidden messages in Kid’s movies and that they may end up teaching children the wrong idea. I do agree that their is way too much violence in today’s films. I work in a pre-k classroom and I see how children are influenced by popular movies of today such as the new Power Rangers film and The Avengers movies. Many kids are quick to imitate what they see in these films such as the use of violence when playing with action figures in order to fight the “bad guys.”

We realize this, and think about the assumptions we’ve made, sometimes it's too late, and sometimes...not so much.

Coming out to friends and family is something every non-straight or non-gender conforming person dreads due to fear of rejection or being further outed. The society we live in is becoming more accepting every day and kids are growing more confident and proud of themselves and who they are. Though it is not a perfect society and negative views are still very abundant, especially in the south, I have made the decision to be out as a gay individual. The anxiety I had within me when I came out to my friends and family is something I will never forget.

There are eight, 1 minute videos of children. Half of the children in the videos are three and the other half are five years old. The videos are also half male and half female. Each participant will have one passport-like photo for each video. There are four photos for each video: one matching the child at the same age, one matching the child but as an infant, one foil (not matching) the child at same age or one foil (not matching) as an infant. The four photo types will be randomly, but equally presented across all the videos. All four photo types of faces are seen twice, each in different orders. The photos will be presented with Qualtrics and the videos will be shown on larger TV screen.

Racist, homophobe, child abuser, alcoholic, druggie, thief. Looking around it is easy to see such labels plastered on the foreheads of people all around society.These hateful epithets, only sometimes accurate, play on theworst traits andfears of many whowould otherwisewish to go unnoticed in thisworld that loves divisionbased on character traits.As these stamps are projected in front of certain people, much of their hope is lost to be seen any other way as they are expected to live up to their labels. The truestory behind a person, and their full nature, is never included in these labels, however true they may be.Given all this hate and judgement, people are better off keeping their worst traits to be dealt with by

Growing up I was the little girl that would hide behind her mom’s leg when people tried talking to me. In other words, I was extremely shy and never liked talking to strangers. Breaking out of my shell as I grew older is an understatement. Today, I will have conversations with people I do not know, but I will not be the one to start them. Once I meet someone and start to get to know them, that’s when the real me comes out. Like most people, depending on the topic I can be silent, loud, gloomy, or livid. As a communicator, I believe that once I have talked to the person once or twice I am great at having conversations. Others might agree or disagree. When it comes to my best friends or family members they all would say I never stop talking,

Over that weekend me and a friend of mine I will call this person friend number 5 went to the beach and during the ride over to the beach we were playing the radio and on the radio they were discussing politics. From what I remember they were conversing regarding republicans, democrats legislations etc. On that Monday this was not an employee but a client this client relayed plenty of information that was said during that conversation that took place on the radio. Likewise they mentioned some of the things we discussed in our conversation regarding what was said on the radio. Now I don’t want to exaggerate they of course did not mention everything that was said instead a few significant points that made it obvious that they were acquainted