In a study by Steele and Aronson (1995) demonstrating the effects of stereotype threat, African-American students performed
A) better on a verbal section of the Graduate Record Exam when race was made salient.
B) better on a verbal section of the Graduate Record Exam when they thought the test was diagnostic of intellectual abilities.
C) worse on a verbal section of the Graduate Record Exam when race was made salient.
D) worse on a verbal section of the Graduate Record Exam when they were threatened with a punishment for every wrong answer.
Answer: C
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