The Textbook Discusses an Experiment Conducted at the University of Waterloo

question 75

Multiple Choice

The textbook discusses an experiment conducted at the University of Waterloo that showed male and female university students, all of whom were good at math, some advertisements that were either gender-stereotyped or gender-neutral. According to this study, what happened when female students who had seen the female-stereotyped advertisements subsequently took a math test?

• A) They performed better than their male counterparts.
• B) They performed better than the women who had seen the gender-neutral advertisement.
• C) They did not perform as well as their male counterparts.
• D) Their performance was not affected at all by the advertisements.

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