PSYCH 3CD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Stereotype Threat, Stage Fright, Takers
25 Jan 2017
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Various group differences in performance (racial, sex, age) may be very much about stereotype threat. Explain performance differences in groups that makes it about the pressures rather than the belonging to a group itself. Steele and aronson (1995) on university completion: Black students and white students drop out of school at differential rates, even if they are doing just as well as each other. Black students had much higher drop-out rates than white students (controlling for sat and gpa scores: black: 70, white: 42% Academic performance is more predictive of white people staying in school than. Schott foundation (2008) on high school on-time completion. On-time: four years to complete high school. There is a stereotype that black people are not as smart as white people. Blacks tend to score 15 iq points lower than whites. He came up with the idea of stereotype threat. Stereotypes say blacks should not do well on intelligence tests.
