Alejandra suspects that her boss is prejudiced against her and believes that she is not as capable as her male co-workers. Because she fears that her boss does not like her, Alejandra often feels dejected at work and makes many mistakes. Alejandra seems to be suffering from .
A. discrimination
B. prejudice
C. stereotype threat
D. victimization

Stereotype threat

Explanation:

Stereotype threat is the threat that is the situation predicted by people. These people feel as conforming stereotypes towards a specific group.

This is a long-standing difference between gender and race in academic performance. These phenomena create a problem in the difficulty of the task in an academic situation.

It is believed that the task measures their abilities but the task is the relevance of stereotype.

Thus Alejandra was suffering from stereotype threat.