Question

What is the stereotype threat?

A. It's when people make up stereotypes.

B. It's when someone threatens another person by using a stereotype.

C. It's when people perform better on national intelligence tests because they know that they are in a stereotyped group.

D. It's the tendency of people who know that they belong to a group that is stereotyped to perform poorly on academic tasks due to being stereotyped.

Answer 1

Stereotype threat is a situational predicament in which people are or feel themselves to be at risk of confirming negative stereotypes about their social group. (Google definition) Hope this helps answer your question

Answer 2

so it's B because they feel threatened.

Answer 3

Nope. It says at risk of confirming negative stereotypes about their groups. So its either on e from the last two

Answer 4

at risk usually is a negative thing so my bet is on D

Answer 5

Me too! :) But this is a tricky question so I hope we're right