Stereotypes And Phobias

In today’s society, many people use stereotypes, a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing, amongst these are race, gender, age, social class etc. Stereotypes are essentially used as categorization. Categorization and stereotyping are both fundamental to human nature; helping make the world more predictable. Stereotyping is most often used by everyday people who don’t know a person, so they judge them by how they look, or by how they carry themselves. Everyone, at some point in their lives, has been stereotyped based on different aspects of their person, such as “acting like a man” or “manning up” because I am a male.

Right outside a corner store, next to a stoplight, or at a park, there may be a homeless person asking for some sort of help; it can either be for a place to stay, money, or food. Many people are used to categorizing a group of people by a solo characteristic, known as a stereotype. Misconception, on the other hand, is a conclusion of someone or something that is wrong because it is based on faulty thinking or facts. Stereotypes and misconceptions appear to be similar, however, these two are not. A misconception is formed from having a stereotype. Stereotypes and misconceptions are built because many try, but are unable to understand a person or a group, or are just simply unwilling to understand the person or group. There are over a million

Stereotyping leads to prejudice. If I am walking in a park and I see a group of people walking towards me (lets say all are white males) and they are dressed up and look very nice. I do not panic, now another group is walking towards me and now this group is all men (African Americans) and they are dressed and conduct themselves just the same as the first group, but I panicked with this group. Why because I stereotyped the second group and if I was prejudice no matter how they dressed or acted I would be afraid of them because they are black. I judge them based on skin color and not on individuality.

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)

I commend you for openly saying that you have such bias against that group of people. However, as a police officer, it is your responsibility to serve and protect the people. Meaning, you have to protect everyone regardless of their gender preference. You are on your way to acceptance because you have acknowledged the problem and you can do it. We have biases towards certain groups of people, race you name it. However, it takes a brave person to acknowledged

Growing up as an Asian in a predominantly American community caused a lot of hardships throughout my childhood. I have always struggled with accepting my own race because of the comments I had received. The majority of my family was born in Vietnam and came over to America to seek a better life. On the other hand, I was born in the United States as a male in the middle class. However, I still dealt with a bunch of hardships for being “Asian”.

There is always that one scary movie that everyone loves to watch. The one that gets them everytime something jumps out. What about going up to a friend when they are not looking and yelling "boo"! Fearful right? In some cases its not even those things people fear. It could very well be an intense fear reaction to a particular thing. Hopefully, after reading this essay, there will be a greater understanding to fear, how it is triggered, and why it happens.

In today's world there are many prejudices towards society's standards and it affects people negatively especially women. Being attractive can get you anywhere. Having good looks and a nice body gets you places most of the time. It is harsh but it is the truth. A social experiment has actually found that to be true.

Prejudice and stereotypes occur in all societies. Thus, yes, I have seen it take place in American society--plenty of times actually. I can recall an instance when I've heard others call African Americans good athletes, Asians bad drivers, Mexicans poor, and the list goes on. I've heard these assumptions at school, sport's practice, in the news, and even with friends and families. While prejudice and stereotypes happen everywhere, I was inevitably and surely going to encounter it. I've been told that I eat dogs because I am filipino however, I don't ever recall eating it lol. :-) I remember a conversation with my coworker: "You are filipino? That means you sing, right?" Well, I can't exactly be upset since he was actually right. But his assumption

There are many things in the world to be afraid of, but as you grow older your perceptions/thoughts of things or people change and you learn to actually be scared of something or not. We feel fear because we see or hear something that makes us anticipate harm. People get scared of different things at different ages, for example, older women (ages 40 to 60), are the most scared of nightmares which results in poor sleep and irregular heart beats. The most common things a teenager can be scared, of is poor academics and they are the least scared of being bullied or not fitting into groups clubs. Other teens are afraid of auditioning or trying out for thing while others are afraid of life after graduation or worrying about how to pay for things when

Out there, there is lots of stereotypes that might hurt people, and sometimes it might not, or you might just be playing around with them, but they might take it seriously. Everyone has feelings, and you might just think they don’t, but they do, so you have to be careful on what you say or what you do. Our point here is that people can get offended by stereotypes. No matter what kind, for example stereotypes about their race, gender, and or appearance. It can be something small or even big you have to be careful what you say about them because you never know what they can do or what they might do or even what they can think about you or themselves.

Early childhood from one through six-and-a-half years is critical in roughly fifty percent of their cognitive and social development, and children in this age range live by their emotions established by their own imaginations (V. V. Zen 'kovskii, 2013). Muris and Field (2010) in “The Role of Verbal Threat Information In the Development of Childhood Fear” describe the emotion fear as having three response systems listed as subjective, based on verbal-cognitive; behavioral changes; and their physiological states. Such fears

Twenty-one subjects were involved in the two case experiment. Subjects were asked to imagine as if they were participating in the experiment. The expectations were rated on numerous occasions of slides of snakes, electrical outlets and flowers, which would then be followed, by a shock, tone, or nothing. The predictions of the experiment were proven true. High and low-fear subjects both reported an expectancy bias for phylogenetic and ontogenetic fear-relevant stimuli and shock. Exposure was used during the second phase of the experiment where random slide and outcome presentations took place. The results showed only those that had high-fear displayed a covaration bias, which was directly related to phylogenetic fear-relevant slides and shock. This showed all other biases were attenuated effectively. (Hugdahl, K., & Johnsen, B.

Phobia, the feeling of irrational fear that hunts many people. A phobia is the sensation of extreme fear "when it is not justified by the presence of any real danger or threat, or by any rational cause, and when it is accompanied by a systematic avoidance of the situations that lead to it.” A phobia is activated by a specific stimulus or situation, such walking on a bridge looking down and the feeling of uncontrollable fear or a stimulus such as a bee. When presented with the fear stimulus it will trigger a specific physical reaction or a combination of these reactions, such as a shortness of breath, rapid heartbeat, sweating, trembling, and trembling. Most people who are suffering from phobias recognize that their fear is irrational and are clueless of what is causing the fear, yet they still try to avoid coming in contact with any fear inducing stimulus because they fear the feeling of irrational fear. There are two studies that scientists had studies on the cause of phobia.  The 1st study, scientists observed that one can be trained to fear a stimulus in an animal or human. A rat hears a low buzzing noise and then it is electrically shocked. This is to train the rat to fear that low buzzing sound. When this process is repeated several times eventually, when it hears the noise without the electrical shock it will still exhibit symptoms of fear because in their mind that low buzzing sound means danger and pain is coming.