PSYC12H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Self-Control, Mena, Thought Suppression
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Schamder and johns said st lowers test performance because iot lowers wm capacity, when people are of low minority and they do bad is because their wm is full. So females take math test and manipulated number of men and women in the room, and asked to recall the number of words in wm task and recorded their math performance afterwords. So women did worse on this test because they had lower wm capacity or because they were distracted in this test. Acute stress response, working memory is the proximal mediator, but nothing in psychology is so simple and stereotype threat is multiply determined. They talked about an integrative model of st, an acute stress response can occur- can be a threta response, increased blood pressure and heart rate- threatened, but low bp means they can do this are not threatened. So if iam scanning the env for stereotypes thinking about the stereotypes distracts you.
