Does stereotype thinking affect the application design?

1. How does stereotyping affect development?
2. What are stereotypes in design?
3. How does stereotyping affect performance?
4. How stereotypes affect perception?

How does stereotyping affect development?

Stereotypes about social groups shape children's beliefs about what is expected for their group members. These beliefs can influence children's developing beliefs about themselves (self-perceptions).

What are stereotypes in design?

One helpful design technique is identifying the typical shape or form of an object, referred to as the visual stereotype. This identified form represents an archetype upon which to start a design or as a baseline to compare a new design's non-mechanistic appeal in qualitative analyses.

How does stereotyping affect performance?

Performance is debilitated because concern about fulfilling the stereotype occupies working memory resources that could be used for task performance.

How stereotypes affect perception?

Most of the stereotypes that affect our visual perception are unconscious – so we may not even realise we have them. For example, researchers say, we may not consciouslythink that men are "more aggressive" or women "more appeasing", but we perceive them to be unconsciously.