PS287 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Meg Ryan, Isaac Newton, Stereotype Threat
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Last topic we talked about in the previous class . Culture, race, class, sexual orientation influence content of gender stereotypes. Stereotype of homosexual: possess gender-role characteristics of the other sex. Increasing age more strongly associated with negative evaluation of women than men. Increasing age more strongly with loss of competence for men. At 3: girls more knowledgeable about stereotypes than boys. Three phases of stereotype development in children o. Up to age 5: acquire information about gender-related characteristics. Ages 5-6: consolidate information and apply it rigidly to categories of male and o female o o. Boys viewed by what they do; girls by how they look. Subtyping creates multiple categories but may not reduce power of stereotypes o. Subtypes of male stereotype include occupational subtypes o. Can be harmful when our expectations influence how we behave toward others self- fulfilling prophecies. Similar to white/black paradigm (steele & aronson, 1995) E. g. , females" performance on math tests when primed that males perform.
