PSYC12H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Social Psychology, Stereotype Threat
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Chapter 18: an identity threat perspective on intervention. Interventions that closed the achievement gap invoking high standards for performance, encouraging optimistic interpretations of adversity and buttressing students" sense of belonging and self-integrity. Stereotype threat makes a person adaptive but it can lead to raising stress, depleting limited mental resources and undermining performance. It can also erode a person"s feelings of comfort, belonging and trust. Inequality has psychological and structural causes as well therefore psychological interventions need to be considered along with structural approaches. Stereotype threat is a general phenomenon of identity threat. Social identity threat, the group form of this threat, arises when people realize that they could be devalued on the basis of their group for any reasons. Identity threat can depress cognitive functioning and emotional wellbeing especially when chronic and experience in a domain like school or work, where outcomes have material and symbolic consequences. Moving from lab to field: conceptualizing identity threat in real world settings.
