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Essay Instructions: Discuss three stereotypes you encounter in your own life and the effect those stereotypes can have on others. This can be a stereotype you realize you have been guilty of holding or someone else's. Explain (a) what the stereotype is and (b) what sort of argument, no matter how flawed, might be used to support it, and (c) identify any mistakes you find in that argument.

1. Gangs
2. Abortions
3. All tall people (men) plays basketball

The paper must be three pages in length (excluding title and reference page) and in APA (6th edition) format. You must use at least three resources, one of which must be the course text, and two resources must either be found in the Ashford Online Library or from the provided sources.

NOTE: I have upload a part of the reading about stereotypes to read!

Essay Instructions: Assignment 3: Final Project

Research suggests six principles of effective contact to reduce prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination. Assume that you assist a counselor in a detention center for delinquent adolescent boys. The counselor is devising a way to reduce intergroup conflict between these boys, many of whom were active in local gangs. Keeping diversity and tolerance in mind, what should the counselor make the participants do?

* Break existing negative stereotypes.

* Support participants with the help of local norms and institutions.

Note: The norms could be established by the counselors at the detention center. Examples of these norms can be that boys of different gangs room together and work on center chores together, name-calling is not permitted, and so on. These norms could be consistently applied in other settings that the boys are involved in together, for example, the local recreation center, the educational institution (here boys from different gangs have to work on a team or a project together. In other words, the institutions need to reward cooperation rather than competition between members of different gangs.

* Ensure that different groups interact as equals.

* Ensure that contact with the participant is at an individual level and is rewarding.

* Ensure cooperation and teamwork between different groups.

You may refer to the following Web site to complete this assignment:

* www.tolerance.org/hidden_bias/index.html
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Essay Instructions: One of the main points of the Harvard Implicit Association Test was to illustrate the following (Google it and take a look)
* The vast majority of people here in the United States believe that they are not biased, prejudiced and do not discriminate.
* The conscious mind says -- no bias -- BUT -- the unconscious mind does, in fact, have a bias.
* The majority of people in the USA, (even those members of the groups against whom bias and prejudice exist) have attitudes consistent with the "majority". This means -- the majority of people here are biased in some way.
* In other words -- everyone, regardless of group membership, believes the "right kind" of people are those the culture defines as the "right kind". (By the way -- when individuals from the "out" groups have attitudes consistent with the majority in a culture, and those attitudes are detrimental to the "out" group, --- it is called internalized oppression.)
Please answer the following questions:
1. How can one actually begin to change those implicit attitudes---- that is -- one’s stereotypes?
2. Are stereotypes ever useful?
3. If so ??" how would a stereotype actually be of value in the workplace?
4. When stereotypes are harmful ??" how can one actually eliminate them?
You will need to check the literature to adequately answer these questions.

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Essay Instructions: The Title of the Essay is :

" Is stereotyping inevitable? Focusing on research and theory, discuss how people use and maintain stereotypes, and how stereotypes can be changed."

i am studying social psychology, and i am just an average student and the book i have been studying from is: the fith edition, Social Psychology, by Elliot Aronson, Timothy D. Wilson, and Robin M. Akert.

The essay needs to be 6 pages long, and where possible could you use a way of writing it that is not too complicated, so that a high school sudent could understand it. i am not at high school though i am at university, and so it has to contain the right level of information. thank you