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schs14

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Suppose that you are in a ship wreck and numerous people around you are drowning. No one present knows how to swim except for you. According to evolutionary theory, if you only had time to save one person, which of the following people would you save?
 
  a. The city mayor
  b. Your husband or wife
  c. Your baby
  d. Your mother

Question 2

Which of the following provides evidence of stereotype threat?
 
  a. IQ scores do not accurately predict income.
  b. People work harder on tasks when they are rewarded for successes than they do when they are punished for failures.
  c. When intelligence tests are culturally biased (e.g., when they include examples that are only known to particular cultural groups), they tend to reinforce race-based stereotypes about intelligence.
  d. Women perform worse than men on math tests when they believe that the test produces gender bias, but they perform the same as men when they believe that the test produces no gender differences.



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Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

D



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