Claude Steele

Psychology 3420 Exam 1 Chapters 1-5 1. Culture is an adaptational response to three factors—____. These three factors combine to produce ways of living, and culture is an abstract concept that explains and describes those ways. 2. ____ is/are general beliefs and premises about oneself, the social and physical environment, and the spiritual world. Leung et al. (2002) demonstrated the universal existence of five types of ____ on the individual level in 41 cultural groups. 3. ____ refers to the

close the gap to increase one’s intellectual learning ability. Many students struggle because maybe there are being targeted by stereotype threat which is mentioned in the book, Whistling Vivaldi how stereotypes affect us and what we can do By Claude M. Steele. He talks about many students get affected in school because of stereotype threat afflicted upon the student which causes many students to under perform and create a bigger achievement gap for his or herself, but many students can use this as

The Enlightenment Of People On Identity The identities of an individual may differ from how they see themselves to how others see them, and this is known as a personal and a social identity. People are often misinformed about another person’s, or group of people's social identities through stereotypes or bad experiences. For some people such as Brent Staples and Judith Ortiz Cofer, this has led to many awkward and potentially dangerous situations. Brent Staples is an African American journalist

As of October 2016, a staggering 194 black citizens were killed by police in the U.S. alone (Craven). Three out of five black males state that “they have personally been treated unfairly by police because of their race” (Holland). Many African American citizens are often penalized, not for crimes they have committed, but for their racial background and ethnicity. There are many advocates around the world trying to stop racial profiling and racial discrimination. Black Lives Matter is an internationally

In I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou recounts her life from age three to seventeen. When she is three, Maya moves to Stamps, Arkansas with her brother, Bailey, to live with her grandmother and crippled uncle. Growing up in the South during the 1930s, Maya and her family encounter many instances of racism. Maya feels she is an ugly child and will never amount to the beautiful white girls. When she is eight years old, Maya’s father brings the two children to St. Louis to live with their

Take Home Midterm Question #1: Social Cognitive Processes Influence On People’s Reponses Towards Their Selves And Others. Many different social cognitive processes involve the basic concept of schemas. A schema is a network of nodes (labels/adjectives) that are strongly connected to each other and to constituent parts. Schemas allow us to take shortcuts interpreting a large amount of information in our environment shortening reaction times. The association between the different nodes within the

MALIK, 703, HUMANITIES CYCLE 4 Over the course of the united states history there have been many different ethnic groups who have been discriminated. There 's sna very long list of people who were forced out of certain opportunities because of their skin color, but for this project I old like to focus on the African American people. So African Americans (AA) have a long history of discrimination in this country starting out with the idea of races. Europeans originally used irish and indian people

High school students across the United States stand by their mailboxes, waiting anxiously for the envelope containing the score that will seal their academic fate. College admission hinges on how well students perform in standardized testing. However, standardized testing has long-standing problems of bias, inaccuracy, coachability, and misuse. Because of these flaws, the college admission process places too much value on standardized test scores, such as the ACT and SAT, and are therefore insufficient

The achievement gap is defined as the disparity between the performance groups of students, especially groups defined by gender, race/ethnicity, ability and socio-economic status. The achievement gap can be observed through a variety of measures including standardized test scores, grade point averages, drop out rates, college enrollment and completion rates. The Black-White achievement gap is a critical issue in modern society’s education system. Although data surrounding the issue clearly indicates

Claude Steele, an Emeritus Professor at Stanford, found that when women were reminded of the stereotype that men were better than women at any subject, the performance of women in assignments and tests measurably declined. Since the reduction in performance