Question

When Annaliese takes a job qualification exam to work in a science lab, she becomes aware that she is the ONLY woman in a room of 20 people who are taking the exam. She becomes anxious about women being regarded as less capable in sciences, and then she does not do as well on the test as she otherwise might have. In this situation it is most likely that Annaliese has been impacted by:____________.
a. discrimination bias.
b. poor reliability of the exam.
c. formal reasoning.
d. stereotype threat.

Answer 1

Answer: d) stereotype threat.

Explanation:

Stereotype treat is the situation where person tend to feel the risk factor of conforming to the stereotype of their background society.People think they might be obeying and treated with stereotype that their social group persist.

According to the question, stereotype treat is impacting Annaliese in the situation as stereotype of society, women being less capable than men in field of math and science which may impact her test.

Other options are incorrect because discrimination bias,formal reasoning and  poor reliability of exam is not influencing Annaliese.Thus, the correct option is option(d).