Answer: Stereotype threat
<span>A stereotype threat is a social-psychological
predicament that can alters academic identity and intellectual performance. Negative
stereotypes raise inhibiting doubts and high-pressure anxieties in a
test-taker's mind that result to </span>reduce the performance of individuals.
The mind set of Courtney
that boys do better than girls in math and science would create anxiety, which
will then trigger a mechanism of decreases performance by depleting the working
memory of the brain.
The correct answer is Depressants
<span>b. They release oxygen that organisms use to breathe.</span>
