PSYC12H3 Chapter Notes -Stereotype Threat, Coronary Artery Disease, Social Identity Theory
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Group identification: individuals faced with external threats such as prejudice show strong ingroup, subsequent research has show that differ in the degree to which they associated identification with their stigmatized group, high identifies members. Gagan has been stereotyped as stupid this. He is very self conciouss of this. The anxiety of that impedes his ability of disproving the sterotype: back to black ppl, some of the reason for this 15 point gap. Stereotype threat: account for gap in subsequent achievement btw similarly prepared/environment african and whites, verbal test, told it is measure of their intelligence (diagnostic) Black ppl < white ppl: not told that (non-diagnostic) Tendency to expect, perceive and be influenced by stereptype of one social category brown. Thus academic self confidence was subject to stronger fluctuation: black person not being able to accurately predict how well they did on a academic test. Women and stereotype threat: women sterotype sci and math, experimetn.
