On my final exam there is going to be this question : What is the difference between stereotype and bias? ...and truly I dont know and the book that we were given isnt much help so if someone could just give me a plain and simple answer that i can write down somewhere that would be great.  Oh does anyone know of an easier way to learn laws? theres going to be 60 questions or so about it on the final exam and just hearing that makes me feel like i will fail

Seimika : This is my opinion but a stereotype is a comment, usually racist, that shows prejudice ideas that a certain group of people think. A bias is a person's personal favoring of one thing over another.

A stereotype is a conclusion that is drawn based on what a person sees, or hears, rather than what the person knows/experiences. Some examples of this are; Jews are good with money, pit bulls are vicious, guys that where pink are gay, etc. None of these are actual FACTS, they are just conclusions people have drawn due to believing what everyone else says.

Being Bias is holding the belief that something is better or worse based on something like emotion or gossip rather than logic and fact; for example (men are smarter than women, taller people are better than shorter people, Hockey is better than soccer) None of these are actually true, though a person may FEEL that it's true, and therefore be biased toward or against something.

The main difference is how the things are perceived. Bias is something that is emotional and is a decision you make, while Stereotype is something that is made when you label something/someone based on what they look like or what others have said about them, so its more physical.