Discuss mental prototypes.
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Provide a brief description of an incident in which you believe that you or another person may have misidentified someone or stereotyped based on physical attributes. Then, describe situations in which you think it is easy or difficult to create mental prototypes, why they are necessary, how they might present challenges to daily experiences, and how you might reduce such errors.
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The expert discusses mental prototypes. Situations in which the expert thinks it is easy or difficult to create mental prototypes are described. The solution provides references.
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Stereotyping:
The human mind is known to carry out some complex functionality which plays part in determining the way an individual behaves. Information storage and retrieval is one of the functions of the brain from the storage system which may have an undesirable effect of mistakenly associating subjects with the wrong characteristics which is an act known as stereotyping. Some years back, as I was waiting to pick up my sister from the airport, I physically misidentified her with someone ...
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