Mr. Gloster teaches high school and observes the long-term effects of stereotype threat with various groups of students in his classes. He wants to prevent their disidentification with academics and help them overcome this threat. Which of the following actions on his part is most likely to help him reach his goal?
A) Help students recognize that intelligence is inherited and encourage them to accept their level of ability without anxiety about stereotypes.
B) Help students avoid academic challenge and develop a positive mindset about their connections at school.
C) Help students feel a sense of belonging by lowering the expectations for individuals who exhibit signs of stereotype threat.
D) Help students see academic achievement as part of their ethnic, racial, and gender identity by introducing role models.

D) Help students see academic achievement as part of their ethnic, racial, and gender identity by introducing role models

Explanation:

Stereotype threat refers to the risk of confirming negative stereotypes about an individual’s racial, ethnic, gender, or cultural group. It projects the weakness of the individual by reminding them that the group they belong to tends to perform very low at the intending task hence affecting their productivity.

So the best thing the teacher can do to help the students is to project to them role models in the group they belong to who had done excellently well , this will boost their morale.

as university of miami psychologists debra lieberman and adam smith pointed out in a recent article in the journal current directions in psychological science, humans have social and psychological mechanisms to deter incest. with very few exceptions, marriages between brothers and sisters and between parents and their children are verboten in every human culture. the primary psychological anti-incest mechanism is the yuck response. even the idea of sex with their mom or dad, bro or sis is upsetting to most people. the psychologist jonathan haidt has found that nearly everyone is repelled by the prospect of brother-sister sex, even in hypothetical situations in which there is no chance of pregnancy).

the biological cost of incest

this raises an interesting question: just what’s so bad about incest? sure, having sex with your dad or your sister seems gross — but why? some anthropologists have argued that incest taboos are learned social conventions. this explanation, however, doesn’t make sense to me as it does not explain the widespread existence of anti-incest mechanisms in creatures ranging from cockroaches to chimpanzees. second, the incest taboo is about as close to a universal law as human moral rules get.

why should mechanisms to avoid incest be so widespread both in nature and across human societies? the answer is simple. the problem with having sex close with relatives is that there is an astonishingly high chance that your offspring will be born with a serious birth defect.

answer; i believe the answer is (b) fascism;