PSYC12H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Stereotype Threat, Simple Math, Attentional Shift
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Involves both cognitive and affective components both automatic and controlled processes. Feature of stereotype threat ability to affect performance without a person"s conscious awareness of the stereotype having been activated. Many processes instigated by being the target of negative stereotype happen automatically. Situations that cue stereotype threat activate a schema of that stereotype: black collegestudents expecting an intelligencetest morelikely than peersto complete word fragments like r_c_ with race instead of rice, rock, rich. It"s the logical inconsistency among the 3 propositions that is what actually constitutes stereotype threat. Implies that stereotype threat will be experienced most strongly in those situations and for those individuals most likely to activate all: this cognitive imbalance elicits other automatic but downstream consequences. Humans have fundamental motive for cognitive consistency. Immediate reaction is uncertainty and self-doubt to imbalances. Activate a more negative association between oneself and the domain. Activating doubt can color the interpretation of one"s experience in ways that disrupt cognitive abilities.