WELCOME TO OUR

PRESENTATION

Members of Groups :

1.Eka Subekti (2009-32-200)

2.Rindi Yunita P (2009-32-201)
3.Devi Kartika (2009-32-203)
4.Resha Ristiyanti (2009-32-204)
 STEREOTYPE
OVERGENERALIZATION
 STEREOTYPE

Stereotypes (or "characterizations") are

generalizations, assumptions or clasification that
people make about the characteristics of all
members of a group, based on an image (often
wrong) about what people in that group are
like,these classifications can be positive or negative.
• Stereotypes can be either positive ("black men are good
at basketball") or negative ("women are bad drivers").
But they are all unfair and misleading. In general,
stereotypes reduce individuals to a rigid, inflexible
image; they do not account for the fact that human
beings are complex and multidimensional, with unique
attributes.
• Stereotypes suggest that people or groups of people are
the same, when, in fact, they are quite different.
Stereotypes about human beings tend to dehumanize
people, placing all members of a group into one, simple
category.
• Stereotypes ignore the uniqueness of individuals by
painting all members of a group with the same brush.
 The Example of Stereotype

One study of stereotypes revealed that

Americans are generally considered to be
friendly, generous, and tolerant, but also
arrogant, impatient, and domineering. Asians,
on the other hand, are expected to be shrewd
and alert, but reserved. Clearly, not all
Americans are friendly and generous; and not
all Asians are reserved. But according to this
study, others commonly perceive them this way.
 Why Stereotype is exist?
It's easy: The world is too complex! Our brains are
not capable of storing up to detailed information.
Therefore, the information is simplified and stored
in the brain as schemata. This information is
prototype, meaning that there is a picture that
represents the complex case is described.
Stereotypes are also not separated from our
emotions as human beings who get a stereotype of
the things we experience, we read, we hear or we
get from other sources.
 OverGeneralization

Overgeneralization is probably the most

common mistake we make in our automatic
thinking. It's easy to see why. Each of us has to
think about new experiences in terms of old
experiences. We recognize most easily those
qualities in a person or thing which we have
seen before.
 The Example of OverGeneralization

The kind of overgeneralization that gives us, as students,

the most trouble is the kind we make about our own
performances and capabilities. If I've done poorly on
essay exams in the past, when I find out that I have to
take an essay exam my automatic thought may be, "I do
poorly on essay exams." I am generalizing from one or
two experiences of a certain kind to all experiences of a
certain kind. Notice that this makes no sense at all until I
have examined the differences, as well as the similarities,
between the present task and the past one.
 The Differences beetwen Stereotype and
Overgeneralization
While all stereotypes are overgeneralizations,
not all overgeneralizations are stereotypes.
Stereotypes are oversimplification of people
groups widely circulated in certain
societies.On the other hand, a person can
make a overgeneralization about an ethnic
group that hasn’t been perpetuated in society
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AttenTion