learning and motivation unit three (week 13)

Stereotype threat

Stereotype threat

________: one feels at risk to conforming to the negative stereotypes about their group.

Expectation

________: combination of stereotype threat and diagnostic have a sense of prejudice and bias.

Independent variable

________: race prime or no race prime on questionnaire (just asked about race)

Hypothesis

________: the apprehension caused by the stereotype threat can be shown in a general anxiety test.

Dependent variable

________: performance on test, questionnaire about stereotype threat, academic identification items.

Anxiety

________ mediates the relationship between diagnostic and performance.

Hypothesis

________: black ppl in the diagnostic condition do worse than the white people and the black people in the nondiagnostic condition.

Stereotype threat

________: people find themselves to be at risk of conforming to stereotypes about their social group.

Independent variable

________: test description (diagnostic of ability or not or as a challenge)

Independent variable

________: race by diagnostic /nondiagnostic /control.

Independent variable

________: test description (diagnostic of ability or not)

stereotype threat

people find themselves to be at risk of conforming to stereotypes about their social group

stereotype threat

one feels at risk to conforming to the negative stereotypes about their group

independent variable

test description (diagnostic of ability or not or as a challenge)

dependent variable

test performance

hypothesis

black ppl in the diagnostic condition do worse than the white people and the black people in the nondiagnostic condition

independent variable

test description (diagnostic of ability or not)

dependent variable

level of anxiety

used a computer

the 25 question test and the anxiety test afterwards

hypothesis

the apprehension caused by the stereotype threat can be shown in a general anxiety test

no difference found in anxiety

maybe the measures were too delayed

independent variable

race by diagnostic / nondiagnostic / control

dependent variable

test performance

self-handicapping

distancing themselves from their domain

independent variable

race prime or no race prime on questionnaire (just asked about race)

dependent variable

performance on test, questionnaire about stereotype threat, academic identification items

number of black people in the study

if taken in a room together, what does being the only black person taking the test do to their performance

expectation

combination of stereotype threat and diagnostic have a sense of prejudice and bias

What causes disidentification with one's domain?

Stereotype threat

Jane is the only women in her Calculus III class. What might she experience?

Stereotype threat

What was the hypothesis of Study 1?

Black people in the diagnostic condition do worse than the white people and the black people in the non diagnostic condition.

What was the hypothesis in Study 2?

The apprehension caused by the stereotype threat can be shown in a general anxiety test.

What could be one of the causes of stereotype threat?

subconscious self-fulfilling prophecy