Editing Counterstereotype (section)

=== Categorization-Processing-Adaptation-Generalization Model ===
The Categorization Processing Adaptation Generalization model builds upon previous cognitive research as to how diversity experiences, or in essence counterstereotypical experiences can change the way people think.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last1=Crisp |first1=Richard J. |last2=Turner |first2=Rhiannon N. |date=March 2011 |title=Cognitive adaptation to the experience of social and cultural diversity. |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0021840 |journal=Psychological Bulletin |volume=137 |issue=2 |pages=242–266 |doi=10.1037/a0021840 |pmid=21142349 |issn=1939-1455|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last1=Fiske |first1=Susan T. |title=A Continuum of Impression Formation, from Category-Based to Individuating Processes: Influences of Information and Motivation on Attention and Interpretation |date=1990 |pages=1–74 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0065-2601(08)60317-2 |access-date=2024-11-30 |publisher=Elsevier |last2=Neuberg |first2=Steven L.|series=Advances in Experimental Social Psychology |volume=23 |doi=10.1016/s0065-2601(08)60317-2 |isbn=978-0-12-015223-0 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> When encountering counter stereotypical events, if a perceiver is motivated to engage in elaborative processing involving stereotype suppression and generative thought, that with multiple experiences resulting in elaborative processing, the perceiver will develop generalized cognitive flexibility.<ref name=":2" /> This would mean the use of elaborative thought over [[Heuristic (psychology)|heuristics]] based thinking, and weakens reliance on quick mental [[Representation (psychology)|representations]] such as stereotypes.