In the early twentieth century,the U.S.government developed intelligence tests to evaluate newly arriving immigrants.Poor test scores among immigrants who were not of Anglo-Saxon heritage were attributed by some psychologists of that day to
A) stereotype threat.
B) innate mental inferiority.
C) savant syndrome.
D) differences in cultural experiences.

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During the early twentieth century, some psychologists believed that poor scores on intelligence tests among non-Anglo-Saxon immigrants were due to innate mental inferiority, promoting eugenics and scientific racism. This belief has since been widely discredited.

In the Early Twentieth Century,the U