Question

Samkelo is the only Black employee in his workplace. Though he is competent, his White colleagues as well as his boss consider him dull and incapable of good performance. Samkelo is anxious and under tremendous pressure. Consequently, he is unable to meet his target and his productivity is low. In the context of psychology, Samkelo seems to have responded to ________.

Answer 1

In this case, Samkelo to have responded to stereotype threat making him to become anxious and getting under tremendous pressure at work.

A Stereotype threat means being at risk of confirming negative stereotypes about a person's racial, ethnic, gender or cultural group which can create negative effect on such individual.

• Stereotype threat usually happens to a minority group in a region or workplace because they are small in number and seen as inferior as compared to others.

In conclusion, Samkelo to have responded to stereotype threat which makes him more anxious and under tremendous pressure at work.

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