Professor MacLaggan Is Teaching Two Classes

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Multiple Choice

Professor MacLaggan is teaching two classes.One of them is made up mostly of Caucasian students,where the other is made up mostly of African-American students.Without even realizing it,Professor MacLaggan takes more time to go over concepts,speaks slower,and emphasizes main points much more emphatically in the second class than he does in the first class.We might say that this differential treatment of these classes indicates

• A) implicit stereotypes
• B) discrimination
• C) explicit stereotypes
• D) racism

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