If Black students perform below their ability because of fear of reflecting badly on their group, what is this tendency called?
a. The Flynn effect
b. Regression to the mean
c. Stereotype threat
d. Crystallized intelligence
c
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Which of the following correctly lists the order of the three processes of memory?
A. Acquisition, extinction, and spontaneous recovery B. Bottom-up processing, selective attention, and top-down processing C. Receiving information from the senses, organizing and storing the information, and retrieving the information from storage D. The unconditioned stimulus, the conditioned stimulus, and the conditioned response
Dr. Llewellyn is conducting a study of changes in emotional regulation that occur as we age. He is examining different brain structures in young, middle, and older adults. He is most likely to find that development in an almond-shaped set of nuclei deep in the brain called the ____ is most highly related to the development of emotional regulation abilities
a. amygdala b. hippocampus c. hypothalamus d. reticular formation
According to the _________ hypothesis, school instruction produces greater improvements in learning if it is consistent with the practices of the child's own culture
a. cultural deficit c. cultural compatibility b. deficit compatibility d. culturally different
Adolescents' use of antagonistic interactions such as sarcasm and ridicule are related to
a. the increased capacity for complex thinking. b. disputes between friends. c. developmental trajectory of inter-crowd competition. d. decreases in family interaction.