Attitudes, biases, and prejudices towards certain groups (nationalities, races, religions, and sexes) can pose formidable challenges to communication. This is because an individual is judged by group association rather than by getting to know the individual and recognizing individual differences. What is the tendency called?
• Group-based judgments vs. individual-based judgments in communication • Common term in human relations training for assigning traits to someone based on their membership in a group • Difference between seeing a person as an individual versus as a representative of a group
• Which option describes making assumptions about a person purely because they belong to a certain group, instead of learning about them as an individual? • Look at each word: which one have you heard in contexts like bias training, diversity training, or human relations courses? • Which term refers to forming a fixed, oversimplified idea about members of a group?
• Verify which term is commonly used in communications / human relations materials about bias and prejudice. • Check whether each word is a real, commonly used term in this context (in everyday language, not just on tests). • Make sure the term you select clearly matches the idea of assigning group characteristics to an individual.
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