Stereotype effect on behaviour Flashcards

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What is a stereotype?

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Stereotypes are widely held generalizations about a group of people

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What is stereotype threat?

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Stereotype threat is internalising the ideas that come from the stereotype such that it affects your behaviour and becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

We categorize information using the schema theory and it allows us to make generalizations about people.

The out-group homogeneity effect is a hypothesis that out-group members as being more similar to one another.

If we combine this with social identity theory, we can see how negative stereotypes of out-groups could be formed: we want to view out-groups as inferior in some way to** boost our own self-esteem** by comparing that inferior group with our superior in-group.

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Aim of Steele & Aronson?

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To show how stereotype threat may affect an individual’s test performance

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Method of Steele & Aronson?

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  • black and white undergraduates from Stanford University
    • Two IV: the race of the participant and the test descriptions
    • The participants were given a standardized test of verbal ability and were told one of two things
      ○ 1: it is a test to diagnose your intellectual ability
      ○ It is a test of your problem-solving skills
    • Participants were randomly assigned to one of the conditions with equal numbers of participants in each condition
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Findings of Steele & Aronson?

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  • No significant difference between male and female participants
  • African Americans did poorly when they believed that the test was a test of their ability, but did just as well as the white Americans when they believed that is was a test of their problem-solving skills
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Conclusion of Steele & Aronson?

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African American participants performed less well than their white counterparts in the stereotype threat condition but in the non-threat condition, their performance equalled that of their white counterparts.

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