PSYC12H3 Chapter Notes -Ego Depletion, Allostatic Load, Intersectionality
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Blacks and latinos continue to trail whites in standardized measures of reading and mathematics at all age levels. Achievement gap has narrowed overtime but not the race gap. Gender gap is small in high school, large in entrance tests to university like sats. Women still a minority when it comes to top positions. Nature: the bell curve (blacks and latinos have inferior genes), women"s inferior instrinsic aptitude. Nurture:women products of sociocultural environments, less education resourcs (low income family)= lower academic performance. It is believed that scores on a standardized test of intelligence and achievement are valid and unbiased indicator of a person"s true abilty. Race difference still exists even after controlling socioeconomic status. Even culturally fair and valid measures can still be subject to variables that systematically impair performance for some individuals and not others. Something in the situation itself, holds maginalized groups back from reaching their full potential.