Life examples of stereotype effect: young people often think that old people are stuck in a rut; While the elderly often think that young people are frivolous. Professors are always white-haired and gentle, while workers are strong and generous.
Farmers are simple, soldiers are resolute, intellectuals are gentle, businessmen are smart, and so on are classified views, which are rigid and fixed impressions formed in people's minds. In addition, gender, age and other factors can also be the criteria for the stereotype effect to classify people.
The role of stereotype
Due to the stereotype effect, when people recognize a person, they will first attribute some of his special characteristics to a certain class of members, and then attribute the typical characteristics of such members to him, and then recognize him.
This prejudice exists in people's minds and has its cognitive roots. Because people's thinking is always from individual to general, and then from general to individual, if we do not fully grasp the comprehensive perceptual materials of a certain kind of people, we will often form an impression that does not meet the actual characteristics of such people.
When evaluating and judging people according to this impression, regardless of the individual's specific life experience, it will naturally produce the prejudice of "stereotype".
What are the common stereotypes in life?
1) Stereotypes usually distinguish different groups with obvious natural characteristics such as gender and race, and attribute a series of characteristics to individuals of a certain group, and each group of a certain group has all the characteristics of the group; Stereotype is a form of social impression, that is, fixed impression. The concept of stereotype is used in social psychology to express the bias and solidification of social cognition. Therefore, once the stereotype is formed, it has high stability and it is difficult to change with the changes of realistic conditions. Therefore, the influence of stereotypes must be considered in daily life. For example, market research companies should generally choose women instead of men when recruiting interviewers for household surveys, because in people's impression, women are generally kind and less aggressive. The strength is also relatively thin, so the threat of home visits to the host is small; Men, especially able-bodied men, are easily rejected if they ask for home visits, because they are more likely to remind people of a series of things related to violence and attacks, which will enhance people's defensive psychology. More importantly, stereotypes are often associated with prejudice. Stereotype is a cognitive component of biased attitude, which rationalizes its prejudice against groups by acting on individuals.
"Birds of a feather flock together, and people are divided into groups." People who live in the same area, engage in the same occupation and belong to the same race always have some characteristics. Therefore, stereotypes are generally reasonable.
However, "people's hearts are different and each has its own face." In the final analysis, stereotype is only a general and general view, and it cannot replace a living individual. Therefore, the mistake of "generalizing the whole" is always inevitable.
Give an example of stereotype.
Stereotype, also known as social stereotype and qualitative effect, refers to a relatively fixed and classified view of a person or a certain class of people. It is a constant, general and simple evaluation of a certain kind of people without substantive communication-this is a common phenomenon when we know others.
Example 1: A police chief was chatting with an old man by the roadside when a child ran over and said to the police chief in a panic: Your father and my father had a quarrel! The old man asked: Who is this child? The police chief said: It's my son. Please answer now.
What is the relationship between these two quarrelling people and the public security bureau chief? Only two of the tested 100 people answered this question correctly, and then asked this question to a family of three. The parents didn't answer correctly, but the children answered it quickly: the director is a woman, and the quarreling party is the director's husband and father, that is, the child's father and grandfather!
In fact, this is a very simple question, but why do so many adults get it wrong? This is the stereotype at work: according to the experience of adults, the police chief should be a man, and from the psychological formula of the male director, there is naturally no answer; The child has no experience in this field, and there is no restriction of psychological formula, so he found the correct answer at once.
Stereotype example 2: In ancient times, there was a king who took his sons to a huge stone gate and said to them: Whoever can push this door open will inherit the throne. "The tall and strong princes looked at the huge stone gate and shook their heads in fear and gave up. Only the youngest prince walked over, pushed the door hard and opened it.
The stereotype effect of people's psychology is the stone gate that looks scary. In fact, as long as you are willing to do it, it is not so terrible. Many people are trapped in the stereotype effect and can't get out of the tragic ending of fate. Countless facts tell us that once we walk out of the "gate", we will have the opportunity to see many different life landscapes and even create miracles of life.
What stereotypes are there in daily life?
For example, Shandong people in China are honest and straightforward, while Suzhou and Hangzhou people are alert and clever. For example, businessmen are mercenary, teachers are gentle and gentle, doctors are rigorous, and geological exploration teams are extensive. Older people prefer to be conservative than young people. Another example is the impression of English gentlemen, cowboys in the western United States, primitive Africans and conservative orientals.
Examples of stereotypes in life
Stereotype mainly refers to a general and fixed view of something or object and extends this view. Think that this thing or the whole has this characteristic, ignoring individual differences.
Positive expression of stereotype: simplifying the cognitive process, saving a lot of time and energy, and helping to cope with complex environment.
Negative performance: make people ignore individual differences when recognizing others, produce preconceived ideas and hinder the correct evaluation of others.
Common Cultural Stereotypes in China
; What China cultures have been exported abroad, leaving a stereotype for foreigners?
With the globalization of the world, countries are more closely linked, and China also has various contacts with the outside world. In the process of China's cultural export, there are some stereotypes that we seem to find very interesting.
First of all, China people are particularly good at math.
China is actually a country that attaches great importance to education, especially in theory. It is true that mathematics in our school began to learn something very complicated for foreigners very early. For example, we can learn equations in primary school, and we may not learn them until high school abroad. But this is really a stereotype. After all, learning is one thing, and learning well is another. Second, it can be reflected in shopping. China often has some anti-compensation algorithms when buying food. For example, if you buy something with six dollars, you can give the boss 1 1 yuan, so he can give you five-dollar bills directly. However, few foreigners have this kind of thinking. In their eyes, they think that China people have strong computing ability.
Second, everyone in China knows Kung Fu.
Some martial arts films in China are very famous, such as Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Jet Li and so on, all of which are internationally renowned martial arts superstars. In the martial arts movies, the atmosphere of China is also shaped into a country with a good martial arts atmosphere, and many foreigners come to China to study China martial arts. Also, many elderly people in China will play Tai Chi in the square. In the eyes of foreign martial arts lovers, China people all know martial arts. This deepen their stereotype that China people are associated with Kung Fu.
Third, China people have single eyelids and phoenix eyes.
We can see in many foreign film and television works that foreigners' portrayal of the role of China people basically has two obvious characteristics: single eyelid or phoenix eye, whether in animation or live-action movies. But this is understandable, just as we generally think that foreigners have high noses and deep eyes.