Stereotype is the preconceived image of a particular person, thing or situation. They are mainly used to define and limit people or groups of people in society.
The steps in the process of training and maintaining stereotypes are:
- Categorization: That is the process of separating individuals into classes, functions, races, or anything else that ends in separation.
- Inferences: It corresponds to the act of abstract thoughts on a particular subject, or person, to become a logical and applicable reasoning.
- Expectation: It is what is expected or expected from the behavior and function of people or things.
- Maintenance: it is the verification of the functioning and the repair of what is not going according to the expected.