PSYC12H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Heritability, Barbie Liberation Organization, Ingroups And Outgroups
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At risk of confirming negative stereotype about a group. Projective tests ( like rorschach) reflect your innermost thoughts. Mmpi answer true or false to many statements personality characteristics are derived from these statements. Tested intellectual performance of school children to differentiate retarded children and normal ones: were only a measure of performance. Statistics were used to say blacks and immigrants were inferior. 1916, louis turnman made the stanford-bennet intelligence test: made iq intelligence quotient. Mental age/chronological age x 100 = iq. Racial bias in aptitude tests: curtis banks says it needs to measure how well a person does. E. g. how well they will do in college should predict person"s ability: need to assess how tests are used/misused. This makes the experience of taking the test different for a male and different for a female: brought women and men into lab that were good at math and give a difficult math test.
