African Americans perform worse when they believe they are taking an intelligence test than when they think the test has some other purpose.This has been explained in terms of:
A)racial bias in test content
B)the Flynn Effect
C)the heritability of intelligence
D)stereotype threat

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This phenomenon is known as stereotype threat, where a person's performance is affected by the awareness of negative stereotypes about their social group. It has been found to disproportionately affect individuals from historically marginalized groups, such as African Americans in this case. This is not due to racial bias in test content or the Flynn Effect, which refers to the increase in intelligence scores observed over time. The heritability of intelligence is also not relevant in explaining this phenomenon.

African Americans Perform Worse When They Believe They Are Taking