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In an effort to encourage students to reduce the amount of water being used at the university gym, administrators put up a sign asking students to take shorter showers

However, water consumption did not decrease sufficiently, and some students even retaliated by taking long showers. Why did the sign fail to reduce water usage? a. Students didn't see it. b. Students didn't read it properly. c. It did not involve any psychological processes that successfully change behavior. d. It did not create the feeling of a social dilemma.

Andrea knows that many people believe that women are not good at math. When taking the standardized test needed for admission to graduate school, she feels anxiety about the possibility that she might do poorly,

thereby confirming society's expectation about women's math abilities. This example best describes the notion of: a. relative deprivation b. performance anxiety c. stereotype threat d. outgroup homogeneity effect