PSY100H1 Study Guide - Stereotype Threat, Ego Depletion, Thought Suppression
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When people feel like they are being judged by a negative stereotype about their group, they perform poorly in the domain in which the stereotype applies stereotype threat. Effects of stereotype threat don"t end in threatening environment, but also spill over into other domains where they have further detrimental consequences. Someone confronted with a negative stereotype comes to suffer effects in areas unrelated to the source of the threat, an experience we call stereotype threat spillover. Model"s based on identity-threat models of stigma, process models of stereotype threat and theories of stress and coping. Stereotype threat: apprehension that targets feel when they think that negative stereotypes about their group will act as a lens thought which their behaviors will be judged. Black students perform worse on standardizes tests of performance compared to white students b/c stereotypes are in the air arousing deep-seated fears and distracting them from doing as well as they could.
