Explore the role of cognitive flexibility in reducing stereotype threat. What strategies can you employ to encourage a group of first-generation bilingual college students that they have the ability to succeed?
What will be an ideal response?
Cognitive flexibility, the ability to use emotion and logic to weigh options, can help
reduce stereotype threat by providing objective, logical information to counter
emotional, real or perceived stereotypes. Strategies like sharing data with the group
of students about the successes of students quite similar to themselves, giving them
information on the plasticity of the brain and the role of effort in college success, and
the usefulness of multiple interactions may help them internalize the message.
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A) is called babbling. B) begins about six months of age. C) communicates pleasure and comfort. D) signals pain or anger.
Your textbook suggests that a trait that appears to be common to both mental illness and creativity is
a. low pressure tolerance b. high levels of neuroticism c. low capacity for divergent thinking d. latent inhibition