Stereotype: High School Facts Stereotype, it might be an unfamiliar word for lots people, however, it is one of the elements that affects our daily life without our noticing. In high school, where usually all the bullying and insulting starts, stereotype is very common and easy to recognize, and of course, it has many different effects, positive and negative, it is affecting our lives invisibly. First, what is the stereotype? A stereotype is the over generalized belief or image of particular things, person, it normally exists between races, skin colors, and genders. According to sociologist Min-Hsuing Huang’s experiment, when different interviewers interact with different test takers, the performance’s qualities are
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What is important about emotional changes? A female ninth grade student said: “When people say that girls like me, which I am extra chubbier than others, would never play sports good like guys, so sometimes in PE, I thought about it and is always afraid to be active because I feel everyone else are watching me and ready to laugh at me.” This student is not the only one with this answer, many others had the similar results. When people are afraid, there will rarely any chance for them to have a high performance on things that they are “suppose to be” not good at, and this is called stereotype threats, which means people applies the stereotype to themselves. According to the article How a Self-Fulfilling Stereotype Can Drag Down Performance by Shankar Vedantam : “Reminding women about their gender or telling them that men generally outperform women on math tests invariably depresses the women's scores. Similarly, telling test-takers that people of Asian descent score better than other students depress the performance of white men.” (9) Both of Vedantam and our experiment’s results shows that stereotypes can lower people’s performance significantly, especially after when people are already being told that they might not perform better than
What is important about emotional changes? A female ninth grade student said: “When people say that girls like me, which I am extra chubbier than others, would never play sports good like guys, so sometimes in PE, I thought about it and is always afraid to be active because I feel everyone else are watching me and ready to laugh at me.” This student is not the only one with this answer, many others had the similar results. When people are afraid, there will rarely any chance for them to have a high performance on things that they are “suppose to be” not good at, and this is called stereotype threats, which means people applies the stereotype to themselves. According to the article How a Self-Fulfilling Stereotype Can Drag Down Performance by Shankar Vedantam : “Reminding women about their gender or telling them that men generally outperform women on math tests invariably depresses the women's scores. Similarly, telling test-takers that people of Asian descent score better than other students depress the performance of white men.” (9) Both of Vedantam and our experiment’s results shows that stereotypes can lower people’s performance significantly, especially after when people are already being told that they might not perform better than