PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Stereotype Threat, Ageism, Symbolic Power
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Stereotype threat chapter 12: social class and test performance. Scholastic assessment test scores are strongly related to parental annual income. The very rich get the best scores and the poor get the lowest. Stereotypes that portray the poor as not intelligent impact test achievement. Poor people are victims of a contemptuous stereotypes that portray them as unintelligent and lazy. Stereotype threat is the psychological manifestation of a symbolic violence embedded in evaluate settings. Future research should investigate how idealogy (stereotypes), institutional practices (evaluative settings) and behavior (performance) work together to recycle power and privilege into individual differences in intellectual merit. People who are better off have higher iqs than do the poor. Binet developed first iq test in 1905 and discovered that children from affluent neighbourhoods had a superior intelligence than their peers living in the poor suburbs of. Relationship between ses and sat scores are illustrative. College board claimed that sat measures academic skills and not intelligence.
