Pamela's college freshman roommate, Chu Lin, always seemed to ace her exams. Whenever Pamela met an Asian student after that year, she assumed that student was also intelligent. Pamela is using ________ to organize and interpret information about Asian students.

When it comes to psychology, "stereotyping" is a process of organizing and interpreting an information according to an over-generalized belief. This belief could be labeled to a group/class of people. There are, primarily two types of stereotyping: positive stereotyping and negative stereotyping.

"Positive stereotyping" refers to associating a group of people to a positive attribute while "negative stereotyping" refers to associating a group of people to a negative attribute.

The situation above is an example of a positive stereotype. Pamela shows a positive stereotype on how she views Asian students. She thinks that Asians are all intelligent because of her experience with Chu Lin who always tops her exams.

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