Candice,a Minority Student,completes a Self-Affirmation Task Where She Writes About

question 24

Multiple Choice

Candice,a minority student,completes a self-affirmation task where she writes about her most important values.How might this intervention help to improve her grades?

• A) by increasing her sense of efficacy and belongingness
• B) by giving her a more incremental theory of intelligence
• C) by reducing her bias against doing well in school
• D) by increasing the salience of her minority status

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Definitions:

Nerve Fibers

Extended fibers of neurons that conduct electrical signals across the body.

Axons

Long, threadlike parts of a nerve cell along which impulses are conducted from the cell body to other cells.

Dendrites

The branched projections from the neuron's cell body that receive neural impulses from other neurons and transmit them towards the cell body.

Sulci

Grooves or furrows on the surface of the brain.