(Reliability engineering) Make a list of six population stereotypical responses Solution a stereotype is a thought that can be adopted about specific types of individuals or certain ways of doing things.These thoughts or beliefs may or may not accurately reflect reality. Stereotype content refers to the attributes that people think characterize a group. Studies of stereotype content examine what people think of others, rather than the reasons and mechanisms involved in stereotyping. Cognitive functions: Stereotypes can help make sense of the world. They are a form of categorization that helps to simplify and systematize information. Thus, information is more easily identified, recalled, predicted, and reacted to.Stereotypes are categories of objects or people. Between stereotypes, objects or people are as different from each other as possible. Explanation purposes: As mentioned previously, stereotypes can be used to explain social events. Jews were stereotyped as being evil and yearning for world domination to match the anti-Semitic ‘facts’ as presented in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Justification purposes: People create stereotypes of an outgroup to justify the actions that their ingroup has committed towards that outgroup. Intergroup differentiation: An assumption is that people want their ingroup to have a positive image relative to outgroups, and so people want to differentiate their ingroup from relevant outgroups in a desirable way. If an outgroup does not affect the ingroup’s image, then from an image preservation point of view, there is no point for the ingroup to be positively distinct from that outgroup Social functions: self-categorization: People will change their stereotype of their ingroups and outgroups to suit the context they are in.[3][23] People are likely to self-stereotype their ingroup as homogenous in an intergroup context, and they are less likely to do so in an intragroup context where the need to emphasise their group membership is not as great. Stereotypes can emphasise a person’s group membership in two steps: First, stereotypes emphasise the person’s similarities with ingroup members on relevant dimensions, and also the person’s differences from outgroup members on relevant dimensions. Second, the more the stereotypes emphasise within-group similarities and between-group differences, the more salient the person’s social identity will become, and the more depersonalised that person will be. Social functions: social influence and consensus: Stereotypes are an indicator of ingroup consensus. When there are intragroup disagreements over stereotypes of the ingroup or outrgroups, ingroup members will take collective action to prevent other ingroup members from diverging from each othe .

1. (Reliability engineering) Make a list of six population stereotypical responses
Solution
a stereotype is a thought that can be adopted about specific types of individuals or certain ways
of doing things.These thoughts or beliefs may or may not accurately reflect reality.
Stereotype content refers to the attributes that people think characterize a group. Studies of
stereotype content examine what people think of others, rather than the reasons and mechanisms
involved in stereotyping.
Cognitive functions:
Stereotypes can help make sense of the world. They are a form of categorization that helps to
simplify and systematize information. Thus, information is more easily identified, recalled,
predicted, and reacted to.Stereotypes are categories of objects or people. Between stereotypes,
objects or people are as different from each other as possible.
Explanation purposes:
As mentioned previously, stereotypes can be used to explain social events. Jews were
stereotyped as being evil and yearning for world domination to match the anti-Semitic
‘facts’ as presented in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Justification purposes:
People create stereotypes of an outgroup to justify the actions that their ingroup has committed
towards that outgroup.
Intergroup differentiation:
An assumption is that people want their ingroup to have a positive image relative to outgroups,
and so people want to differentiate their ingroup from relevant outgroups in a desirable way. If
an outgroup does not affect the ingroup’s image, then from an image preservation point of
view, there is no point for the ingroup to be positively distinct from that outgroup
Social functions: self-categorization:
People will change their stereotype of their ingroups and outgroups to suit the context they are
in.[3][23] People are likely to self-stereotype their ingroup as homogenous in an intergroup

2. context, and they are less likely to do so in an intragroup context where the need to emphasise
their group membership is not as great. Stereotypes can emphasise a person’s group
membership in two steps: First, stereotypes emphasise the person’s similarities with ingroup
members on relevant dimensions, and also the person’s differences from outgroup members
on relevant dimensions. Second, the more the stereotypes emphasise within-group similarities
and between-group differences, the more salient the person’s social identity will become, and
the more depersonalised that person will be.
Social functions: social influence and consensus:
Stereotypes are an indicator of ingroup consensus. When there are intragroup disagreements over
stereotypes of the ingroup or outrgroups, ingroup members will take collective action to prevent
other ingroup members from diverging from each othe