Blacks attitude achievement paradox

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1. According to Ainsworth-Darnell and Downey, which of the following is false?

a) blacks are more likely to work hard in class than whites
b) blacks get more satisfaction from doing what they are supposed to do in school than whites
c) blacks perceive better treatment by teachers than whites
d) blacks are more likely to report that discipline in school is unfair than whites
e) blacks do more homework than do whites

2. Downey and Ainsworth-Darnell, in their reply to Farkas et al., argue that the myth that black students' reported attitudes have no relationship to their behaviors has persisted in the social sciences for too long. Which of the following questions do they challenge scholars who maintain this position to answer?

a) why are attitude-behavior correlations among blacks consistently in the expected direction?
b) if the argument is that blacks' attitudes are meaningless because their attitude-behavior correlations are slightly smaller than those of whites, shouldn't we also dismiss Asian Americans' and Hispanics' attitudes (whose attitude-behavior correlations are also typically smaller than those of whites)?
c) What more must black students do before we believe they mean what they say?
d) all of the other answers

3. Ainsworth-Darnell and Downey emphasize which of the following explanations for Blacks' attitude achievement 'paradox'?

a) Blacks and whites live in different material conditions,
b) Blacks tell researchers what they think the researchers want to hear.
c) Blacks are only optimistic about education in abstract terms
d) None of the other answers

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