COGNITION
THINKING AND LANGUAGE
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Question
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peer pressure
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stereotype threat
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hostile test threat
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functional fixedness
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Detailed explanation-1: -For example, when female students are given a math exam and told that the exam is diagnostic of their own intellectual abilities, negative stereotypes of women as less capable mathematicians can actually negatively impact their performance on the exam.
Detailed explanation-2: -The theory of stereotype threat suggests that the activation of negative stereotypes in performance situations reduces the quality of task performance exhibited by group members (Steele and Aronson, 1995).
Detailed explanation-3: -: to believe unfairly that all people or things with a particular characteristic are the same. It’s not fair to stereotype a whole group of people based on one person you don’t like.
Detailed explanation-4: -Stereotype threat refers to the risk of confirming negative stereotypes about an individual’s racial, ethnic, gender, or cultural group which can create high cognitive load and reduce academic focus and performance.