PSYC12H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Takers, Test Anxiety, Symbolic Power
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Chapter 12: social class and test performance from stereotype threat to symbolic violence and vice versa. Scholastic assessment test (sat) scores strongly related to parental annual income. Rich get the best scores and the very poor get the lowest. Chapter focuses on the ways in which stereotypes that portray the poor as not intelligent impact test achievement. Present research on the attitudes and stereotypes that people hold toward those who are poor. Poor people are victims of contemptuous stereotype that portray them as unintelligent and lazy. Research in psychometrics revels that on average, people who are better off have higher iqs than do the poor. After developing the first intelligence test, binet discovered that children from affluent neighborhoods had superior intelligence than their peers living in the poor suburbs. Relationship b/w socioeconomic status (ses) and scholastic assessment test (sat) scores are particularly illustrative. Sat, still measures iq or intelligence to a large extent.
