Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

1. Direct observation of people rarely leads to inaccurate stereotypes.
2. We tend to underestimate the variability among members of a category.
3. We tend to underestimate the variability among members of different categories.
4. The self-fulfilling prophecy is the tendency for people to see what they expect to see.
5. When participants in Steele and Aronson's study (1995) were asked to list their race at the top of an exam, African American students scored more poorly than did their SAT scores suggested they should.


1. FALSE
2. TRUE
3. FALSE
4. FALSE
5. TRUE

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