Which of the following situations would most likely lead to a stereotype threat?
A. Tell women who are taking a flower-arranging test that there are no gender differences in test performances.
B. Tell White male college students that Asian males tend to do better than Whites in math before a difficult math test.
C. Show TV ads of women in nontraditional roles to a group of women before they take a word quiz.
D. Conduct math tests for women in an all-female group rather than a mixed-sex group.
Answer: B
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A. experienced a dramatic change in status. B. been unaffected by modern developments in contraception and abortion techniques. C. found little support for birth control and abortion. D. found fewer professional opportunities available to them than before 1910. E. abandoned professional careers for the profession of homemaker.
In many places the loss of large herbivores such as horses led to the hunting of smaller animals, but early Americans turned to hunting deer or
a. mammoths b. elephants c. bison d. quickly developed agriculture e. camels
Degendering theory proposes that ______.
A. gender is most central to the self in adulthood B. as people grow older gender becomes a less central aspect of the self C. people are less likely to identify with any gender as gender equality increases D. sex differences become smaller as gender equality increases
In his first inaugural address, Jefferson stressed his desire to
A) seek revenge on the Federalists for the Alien and Sedition Acts. B) minimize the differences between Federalists and Republicans. C) increase government spending to provide better services for citizens. D) negotiate a mutual defense alliance with Great Britain.