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Critically consider the roles played by stereotype in how we perceive other people (24 mark) In this essay I am going to consider the roles played by stereotype in how we perceive other people. Stereotype are described as 'the as the little picture we carry around within our heads'. A definition of stereotype is a belief held by people about the characteristics of the members of a social group. For example all black people commit crime. People form stereotypes as it saves mental energy, as cognitive misers we aim to use the least possible energy to cut down the amount of cognitive effort involved in social perception. We use stereotypes to put people into categories once we have made a stereotype we tend to apply the characteristic to the whole social group. So it is easier to describe a whole social group rather then, describing them as individual as this would make them...

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