PSYC12H3 Study Guide - Stereotype Threat, Gender Role, Standardized Test
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A general theory of domain identification is used to describe achievement barriers still faced by women in advanced quantitative areas and by african americans in school. Research shows that this threat dramatically depresses the standardized test performance of women and. One must surely turn first to social structure: limits on educational access that have been imposed on these groups by socioeconomic disadvantage, segregating social practices, and restrictive cultural orientations, limits of both historical and ongoing effect. By diminishing one"s educational prospects, these limitations (e. g. , inadequate resources, few role models, preparational disadvantages: article focus on a further barrier should make it more difficult to identify with academic domains. It is the social-psychological threat that arises when one is in a situation or doing something for which a negative stereotype about one"s group applies. This predicament threatens one with being negatively stereotyped, with being judged or treated stereotypically, or with the prospect of conforming to the stereotype.
