PSYC12H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Sympathetic Nervous System, Cingulate Cortex, Anterior Cingulate Cortex
Document Summary
Chapter 3: an integration of processes that underlie stereotype threat. Both anxiety and negative stereotype activation are overly simplistic explanations for stereotype threat. Involves both cognitive and affective components and engages both automatic and controlled processes. Schmader, johns and forbes (2008) outlined an integration of processes that underlie stereotype threat. This chapter summarizes some of what we know about the ways in which stereotypes threat reduces performance by focusing specifically on articulating the automatic and controlled effects stemming from the experience of being targeted by negative stereotypes. Stereotype threat concern that one might inadvertently confirm an unwanted belief about one"s group. Stereotype threat has its ability to affect performance without a person"s conscious awareness of the stereotype having been activated. Rather, many of the processes instigated by being the target of negative stereotypes happen automatically, outside of conscious awareness, and result in outcomes in direct opposition to the person"s explicit goals and intentions.
