In a Study of African Americans at Stanford University Who

question 58

Multiple Choice

In a study of African Americans at Stanford University who had scored very high on the SAT verbal subtest,half were told they would take a test that would predict their verbal ability and the other half took the same test but did not hear the test was predictive.Those who heard the predictive statement did worse than those who did not.This is likely to due to

• A) negative personal control.
• B) internal attributions.
• C) stereotype threat.
• D) implicit social beliefs.

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