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Instruction Type And Stereotype Threat In Analytical Reasoning: Can Creativity Help?, Erica Rachel Mitchell
Instruction Type And Stereotype Threat In Analytical Reasoning: Can Creativity Help?, Erica Rachel Mitchell
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Stereotype threat is the fear that a person's behavior or performance will confirm an existing stereotype of a group with which that person identifies. The purpose of this study was to look at the effect of instruction and emphasis on the female performance on an analytical reasoning task. This study tested undergraduate students taking a psychology course from California State University at San Bernardino. In this thesis, the task was framed as either an analytical reasoning task, a creative reasoning task, or there was no framing present. This study found that performance did differ as a result of instruction type, …