Taylor is the only girl on her baseball team. Today she will be playing in the championship game and is worried that she will "choke" (not be able to play as well as she usually does) because she was told that girls always "choke" in the big games
What concept is being represented?
A) between-group heritability
B) confirmation bias
C) stereotype threat
D) test bias
Answer: C
Rationale: Stereotype threat occurs when people who are aware of stereotypes about their social group may fear being reduced to that stereotype. The anxiety and distraction from stereotype threat can often impair performance.
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During Piaget's sensorimotor stage, children acquire a
A. theory of mind. B. concept of conservation. C. sense of object permanence. D. capacity for abstract reasoning.
Abdulkadir had a very strange thing happen to him last night He was sound asleep in bed, and he was dreaming that he was at a party when he won the $250 million dollar lottery spin. As everyone was screaming, jumping up and down, and celebrating, Abdulkadir had the strangest sensation that he was actually dreaming. As it turns out, unfortunately, he was right. What principle explains this experience?
A) Lucid dreaming B) Conscious dreaming C) Unconscious dreaming D) Sentient dreaming