PSYC12H3 Study Guide - Longitudinal Study, Cortisol, Ventral Anterior Nucleus
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Chapter 1 introduction: according to u. s. -based national assessment of educational program, blacks and latinos continue to trail behind whites in measures of mathematics and reading. Stereotype threat is defined as a situational predicament in which individuals are at risk, by dint of their behaviours or actions of confirming negative stereotypes about their group. Steele and aronson showed that situations themselves are creating or magnifying differences in performance. African americans in their sample performed better on a set of verbal ability problems when they were described as a simple laboratory task in comparison to a diagnostic measure of intelligence. Chapter 2: the role of situational cues in signaling and maintaining. The role of cues and vigilance in stereotype threat. Inzlicht and schmader did a study where male and female mse majors watched a video advertising an mse summer conference that depicted a gender ratio of either three men to one woman, or a balanced ratio.
