[PSYC12H3] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (66 pages long!)

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC12H3
• Professor: Michael Inzlicht

Document Summary

-> ashkenazi sephardic gaps in israel: data reveal some similarities in the gender gap in math and science achievement and engagement, there is only a narrow gender gap in standard measures of math achievement in high school. -> this gap is large and significant on university entrance tests like the scholastic assessment. -> e. g. african americans are well aware of the negative stereotypes impugning their intellectual ability, whenever they are in a situation requiring them to display said ability, they may fear confirming the stereotype. Social psychology in 1995, by claude steele and joshua aronson. -> now widely hailed as a modern classic. -> there is now evidence that stereotype threat could be used to explain the performance not only of blacks and women in school, but also of gay daycare workers, female automobile drivers and white athletes. Chapter 2: the role of situational cues in signaling and maintaining stereotype threat.