What important positive role do stereotypes play in human thinking?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: A good answer will include the following key points.
? Stereotypes can be useful tools to help us make efficient decisions.
? They can help us quickly process new information and retrieve memories.
? They allow us to organize experience, make sense of differences among individuals and groups, and predict how people will behave.
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The extensive debriefings of those participants in the Stanford Prison Experiment revealed that participants who had the role of prisoners:
a. were not aware of how depersonalized they had become. b. never abandoned their concerns for others. c. were struck by the fact that their grasp on reality could be endangered so quickly. d. were not as shaken up as they previously thought.
If the urban overload hypothesis (Milgram, 1970) is true, ________ to help a fallen pedestrian on the streets of New York City because ________
a. Harold would be likely; he was born and reared in a small town b. Alicia would be likely; urban areas are stressful and put people in bad moods c. Roberto would not be likely; he was socialized with urban values d. Ellen would not be likely; she tries to keep to herself amid all the stimulation