Impact of stereotype threat on a cognitive task

This paper examines the effect of gender stereotype threat on the ability to perform mental rotation tasks. Included in this folder are the following:

• Introduction
• method of the study (PowerPoint file)
• Data collected
• Journal articles to be used for reference
• Other helpful info

Mental Rotation Study Information

-The first paper will use existing data that has already been collected in previous semesters. The study examines the impact of stereotype threat on womens mental rotation performance

Relevant information about the method of the study (participants, materials, procedures). We were told that we will not be collecting the data yourself. Must include at least 5 empirical, peer-reviewed sources in your paper. Three articles that must be used, which are relevant background studies for this paper are the Shepard and Metzler (1971) study, the Steele & Aronson (1995) study and (Sanchis-Segura 2018).

Must use these 3 articles and cite them

Reference article #1 – Do Gender-Related Stereotypes Affect Spatial Performance? Exploring When, How and to Whom Using a Chronometric Two-Choice Mental Rotation Task by *, , ,

Reference article #2- Mental Rotation of Three-Dimensional Objects by Roger N. Shepard and Jacqueline Metzler

Reference article #3- Stereotype Threat and the Intellectual Test Performance of African Americans by Claude M. Steele and Joshua Aronson