In the early twentieth century, the U.S. government developed intelligence tests to evaluate newly arriving immigrants. Poor test scores among immigrants who were not of Anglo-Saxan heritage were attributed by some psychologists of that day to:

A. stereotype threat
B. innate mental inferiority
C. savant syndrome
D. divergent thinking

Ans: B. innate mental inferiority

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