2012年11月13日 · Archetype is normally a pre-existing model, from which future copies/examples are created. Stereotype is a "conceptual model" created by abstracting the key features of current examples. Archetype is normally a positive description (but sometimes it may be simply a neutral term). Stereotype is invariably negative/pejorative. It's rarely neutral ...

2011年5月5日 · The difference I would pick up on is that archetype has the benefit of being considered an ideal mould - that is, a fundamental basis which should be taken as an example in future considerations, improvements to the model being few and far between and exclusions of existing features unheard of - whereas prototype could simply be the first mould ...

The term archetype may refer to an ideal, but not necessarily so. The American Heritage Dictionary gives this definition and example as its first: An original model or type after which other similar things are patterned; a prototype: “ ‘Frankenstein’ . . .

2016年3月29日 · Please tell me the meaning of stereotype in the following passage Reflexes: This is the behaviour in which movement takes place in a particular organ. This movement is very fast, stereotype, and for a short duration such as knee jerk, blinking of eyes and withdrawal of hand from a hot place".

2015年8月28日 · OTOH, you should consider the term archetype. For example, The Maine farmer is archetypical (more properly, archetypal) of the hardy but volatile New Englander. When climate change made it too wet for potatoes, they farmed trees instead, and in fact sold their land to large corporations and then to work as employees for the tree farms.

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2012年12月18日 · Some people will differentiate a bad trope from a good (ie a well used archetype), while others times calling a plot device a 'trope' automatically carries a negative connotation. My feeling based on general conversations with friends, is this use for trope has grown particularly quickly in Sci-Fi/pop culture/gaming circles.

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2012年1月14日 · A related concept is the 'ectype', a distorted or flawed version of the archetype. Ectype does not appear in my local dictionary and online searches seem to provide a completely different definition: ectypal — Copied, as contrasted with an archetypal original. Has a specialized sense when used by the philosopher George Berkeley.

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