In the original study demonstrating "stereotype threat," which of the following significantly influenced how well Black college students performed?
A)How close the experimenter stood relative to the participants
B)How many other people were in the room
C)The difficulty of the first question on the test
D)Instructions about the purpose of the test

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The original study demonstrated that instructions about the purpose of the test significantly influenced how well Black college students performed. Specifically, when the test was framed as a measure of intelligence (i.e. the "diagnostic" condition), Black students performed significantly worse than when the test was framed as a non-diagnostic task (i.e. the "non-diagnostic" condition). Factors such as the proximity of the experimenter, the number of people in the room, and the difficulty of the first question were not found to significantly influence performance.

In the Original Study Demonstrating "Stereotype Threat," Which of the Following