PSY 005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Psych, Ambivalent Sexism, Stereotype Threat

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 005
• Professor: Diaz

Document Summary

First, reactions to the threat in the air can directly interfere with performance for example, by increasing anxiety and triggering distracting thoughts. Steele and joshua aronson had black and white students take a very difficult standardized verbal test. To some participants, it was introduced as a test of intellectual ability; to others, it was introduced as a problem-solving task unrelated to ability: because of the difficulty of the test, all the students would struggle with it. If the test was said to be related to intellectual ability, however, the black students would feel the threat of a negative stereotype in addition to the stress of struggling with the test. In contrast, if the test was described simply as a research task and not a real test of intelligence, then negative stereotypes would be less applicable and the stereotype threat would be reduced. In other words, there may be many and subtle differences among us, but.