PSYC 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Minimal Group Paradigm, Stereotype Threat, Desegregation
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Stereotype threat, there is a difference in academic test performance among various cultural groups a. i. One major contributing factor is clearly situational and is based on a phenomenon called stereotype threat: stereotype threat: the apprehension experienced by members of a group that their behavior might confirm a cultural stereotype c. If you make status salient in some evaluative situation, low-status individuals are more likely to perform worse: maybe it"s status differences underlying the test score gap as opposed to biological inferiority, biological inferiority vs. Lovaglia created a basis of status difference that doesn"t exist anywhere else (mimicking minimal group paradigm) & which was totally irrelevant to standardized tests a. ii. The stigmatized group performed worst: converging evidence that stereotype threat reduces working memory capacity, working-memory capacity mediates the effect of stereotype threat on standardized test performance. Immigration reform and control act of 1986 a. i. Gave citizenship to 3 million undocumented immigrants b.
