According to the Textbook, Why Did an "Affirmation Intervention" Help

question 19

Multiple Choice

According to the textbook, why did an "affirmation intervention" help to improve the grades of minority students?

• A) The self-affirmation helped to block the worries prompted by stereotype threat, and therefore stereotype threat did not reduce student's performance.
• B) The self-affirmation helped to change students' theories of intelligence from entity to incremental.
• C) The self-affirmation helped to reduce the biases the students held against doing well in school.
• D) The self-affirmation helped to improve teachers' perceptions of the students.

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