PSY 005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Stereotype Threat, Psych

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 005
• Professor: Diaz

Document Summary

Stereotypes aren"t just beliefs that majority group members hold towards minority group members. Members of a social group can internalize stereotypes, which can affect how they do ro don"t behave. The expectation or worry that one will confirm stereotypes about social identity group in important evaluative situations. The proceeding performance on the math test showed that in gender-difference condition, women did less well than in no-gender-difference (performed about the same) (steele) had both white and black participants taking a test like the. They had either a race primer or no race primer. The proceeding performance on the test revealed that with no-race- prime, blacks and whites performed equally, but when they were asked to list their race, blacks performed worse. (shih) studied asian women"s performance on a math test. The iv conditions were either reminding them of their asian identity, reminding participants of their female identity, or having no identity salient prior to the test.