16) In Allport and Postman’s (1947) “whose hand holds the knife?” study, participants were shown a scene where a Black man and a White man were arguing and the White man was holding a knife. After the sixth re-telling of the scene, in a large number of cases:
Group of answer choices
the knife changed hands from the White man to the Black man
the Black man was stabbed
both the White man and Black man were holding knives
17) Steele and Aronson (1995) conducted an experiment where both Black and White students completed questions from the SAT. In one condition, the test was described as a valid measure of intelligence, and in the other condition, the test was described as a measure of psychological factors of problem-solving. When the test was described as a measure of intelligence, Black students performed more poorly than did White students because
Group of answer choices
Black students didn’t worry about the stereotypes held against them
Black students were overwhelmed by a fear of success
White students were determined to do better than Black students
Black students experienced stereotype threat
the details of the scene were faithfully reproduced without substantial changes