...Individual – Implicit Association Test Complete the Harvard-hosted Implicit Association Test (IAT) using the following instructions. Each test you choose to take should take about 10 minutes to complete. * Navigate to the Project Implicit® home page at https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/ and click Demonstration. * At the IAT home page, click on Go to the Demonstration Tests. * At the Preliminary Information page, read the disclaimer and click on I wish to proceed. You will be prompted to select a test. Take any of the IAT tests that interest you. Write a 150- to 300-word response to the following questions. * Do you agree with the results of your IAT. * If you are comfortable sharing, what was the result of your IAT? If you are not comfortable sharing, what was your impression of the IAT? * Do you agree or disagree with the result? * Do you think that the results are valid for you? Explain why or why not. * In your opinion, is prejudice easy or difficult to measure accurately? Why? Male with Science and Female with Liberal Arts compared to Female with Science and male with Liberal Arts is the Implicit Association Test (IAT) chosen for this assignment. The results acquired suggest a strong association of the topic, the ability to distinguish the association between the Male and Science and the Female with Liberal Arts. I would have to agree with the feedback received from the IAT; identifying the connection between Female and Liberal...
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...The Effects of Socialization on Attitudes Regarding Homosexuality in Relation to the Implicit Associations Test Elaina Lucido Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Indiana University Bloomington Abstract In this study, I investigated whether explicit measures of personal attitudes regarding homosexuality are correlated with implicit measures of personal preference between heterosexuality and homosexuality. Participants were first given a self-report survey in order to gauge their explicit attitudes or prejudices in regards to homosexuals in society. Then, a Sexuality IAT was administered in order to test for a suggested implicit preference for Straight over Gay or vice versa. Overall average scores on the Sexuality IAT revealed implicit preferences for heterosexuality over homosexuality. When the explicit and implicit measures were paired together, correlation analysis revealed that there was no statistically significant correlation between the two. The Effects of Socialization on Attitudes Regarding Homosexuality in Relation to the Implicit Associations Test Attitudes and behaviors towards homosexuality are usually attributed to the moral standings, values, upbringing, and personal experiences of an individual. Opinions regarding the acceptance of homosexuality in America have changed drastically within the past decade partly due to an increased population of younger generations and open homosexuals within the United States. Dimock, et al...
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...that treats people unequally because of their group memberships and often begins with negative stereotypes and prejudices. Once learned, stereotypes and prejudices resist change, even when evidence fails to support them or points to the contrary. (Willoughby, 2007) When I think of bias I think of blatant ways that it manifests itself, but bias can be so subtle that it is hidden and hard to spot. If I change my conscious attitudes and beliefs this may indirectly change my hidden attitudes and beliefs. If I become aware of my hidden biases, I can suppress and attempt to eliminate those hidden attitudes and beliefs before they become behaviors. The Harvard Implicit Association Tests (IATs) are Hidden Bias Tests that measure unconscious, or automatic, biases. These tests can help us start thinking about hidden biases:...
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...Write a 150- to 300-word response to the following questions. Do you agree with the results of your IAT. If you are comfortable sharing what are your results? If you are comfortable sharing, what was the result of your IAT? Do you agree or disagree with the result? Do you think that the results are valid for you? Explain why or why not. In your opinion, is prejudice easy or difficult to measure accurately? Why? I completed the Harvard-hosted Implicit Association Test choosing to complete the Presidents IAT twice. This IAT requires the ability to recognize photos of Barack Obama and another former president. The first test were photos of Thomas Jefferson and Barack Obama. It also included the choice words of good or bad. In this test my results said that I prefer Obama compared to Jefferson. I disagree completely disagree with the results. I do not feel Obama is a better president than Jefferson was. The second test was comparing Bill Clinton to Barack Obama. My results from this test suggest a slight automatic preference for Clinton compared to Obama. I chose to do the same test twice to see if the test holds any validity. It obviously isn’t accurate in its findings and feel at times I chose to click on the correct key. Had the findings been correct it would have shown I prefer both Jefferson and Clinton over Obama. I have no negative feelings for Obama I just feel he is not a good president. Obama has not accomplished anything to have improved the current situation...
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...explain the results of the Bias Test. This test was taken in order to complete assignment instructions for the course General Psychology PSYC1003. Bias Summary The biases do not represent how I perceive myself because in terms of the Gender-Career IAT that I do not think that male should be with the family. The way in which I have been brought up is that male is to go out into the working world and earn an income in which he can support his family while the female can contribute to the income if she chooses to do so. Whether this I right I do not know but this is my experience in my household while being brought up. I believe things are changing in today’s current society where there is more equality in the world but I don’t believe this bias test is correct with these results. The biases in the African America- European American IAT do not represent how I perceive myself because the tests show that I have a strong preference for European Americans rather than African Americans. I can’t see how I would have this opinion when I come from a mixed background. Brought up with one side of my family being mainly European and one side being mainly African with mixed parents I cannot understand as to how the bias test suggests that I have preference towards one or the other. The only thing that I think could affect my bias is that I was in a bit more contact with the European side of my family as a young child from about 2-6. Because of my Christian worldview, my results are not...
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...specific type of group. Thus, tests such as the Implicit Association Test (IAT) by Project Implicit bring light to what these prejudices within people may be. The purpose of the IAT, with tests varying from Skin-tone (Light Skin - Dark Skin) to Age (Young - Old), is to see the implicit biases people have in particular situations. According to their website’s...
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...Week 2 Assignment Joey Williams I strongly disagree with the test results. I think that the way the test was setup does not will not ever truly get the results that the creators of the test wanted. My test results state that I prefer Whites than my own kind. The reality is that I see one race and that’s the human race and I know each race has its good and bad seeds and that’s a fact. The results are far from valid. The reason I can say this is simply due to the fact I have never in my life felt I shouldn’t give a person of another race a chance because we are different. The content of their character is what decides whether or not I have any type of relationship with that person. I don’t think you will understand this next statement but I will try to do my best. The N-word for the most has been the one single word that is associated with black people. Everything evolves including our language or slang if you will. The word bad by Webster’s definition is the opposite of good, something negative. In today society the word bad can mean good it just depends on how you word or use it. Over time the word nigger was a stupid or ignorant black man but the script was flipped or the situation was reversed and now the word nigger evolved into nigga which in slang means friend, enemy, or description of a moment in time. So with all that being said I use the word nigga to describe my best friends or to describe someone I am not to fond of. I know that may not make sense and you probably...
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...Do you agree with the results of your IAT? I do not agree with my results. I feel that it was more of a brain teaser test than it was intellectual. I would have preferred actual questions based on my beliefs rather than a puzzle or game to test my beliefs. If you are comfortable sharing, what was the result of your IAT? If you are not comfortable sharing, what was your impression of the IAT? I am not comfortable sharing my score, as I think it was inaccurate to my true feelings of the subject I chose to be tested on. My impression was that the test was okay, but like I mentioned before, I would rather have straight questions instead of a keyboard game. Do you agree or disagree with the result? Like I mentioned in the first question, I do not agree with the results. I believe feelings and emotions are better answered through actual questions rather than a five minute keyboard game. Do you think that the results are valid for you? Explain why or why not. I do not think the results are valid for me, because the subject I chose to be tested on I feel very neutral about and the results from the test told me I prefer one over the other. In your opinion, is prejudice easy or difficult to measure accurately? Why? In my opinion I do not think it is easy to measure prejudice because not all prejudice is bad. For example, if someone were to say, “black people can dance”, in my opinion, that’s a compliment. I also think that there is a lot of gray area when it comes to...
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...Write a 150- to 300-word response to the following questions. * Do you agree with the results of your IAT? * If you are comfortable sharing, what was the result of your IAT? If you are not comfortable sharing, what was your impression of the IAT? * Do you agree or disagree with the result? * Do you think that the results are valid for you? Explain why or why not. * In your opinion, is prejudice easy or difficult to measure accurately? Why? I found the results of the AI quite interesting. I felt as though it gave a general overview based on our mental and subconscious feelings about certain situations and areas. For example, the first test indicated that I strongly favored men and science. I don’t believe that’s a complete assessment but the sorting seemed a bit more catered to the result. I can only agree with the result based on how the test was structured. For example, the first test asked me to identify arts versus science categories. Then male against female names. There were a few names that could’ve gone both ways. I think the test analyses our tendencies toward certain categories. When I look at the results, I don’t feel as though they’re valid for me. I think that it just shows how we see the connection between certain things. I think is valid for how we accept the world or generally feel about the world. When I look at prejudice, I think its difficult to measure most of the time. As with most things, there’s many...
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...Implicit Association Test Susan Whitebird ETH/125 April 15, 2012 Jamie Fox I took the Skin-tone IAT. The results of my test were light skin- dark skin. Strong 30%, moderate 27% and slight 10%. I believe that the test did not produce valid results for me. I do not care what the color a person’s skin is; it is what is on the inside that counts. We could all be the same color on the outside, but all of us have a difference in opinion and a way of thinking on the inside. I do not think some kind of test is going to tell certain people that they like light skin, compare to dark skin. Yes it is difficult to accurately measure prejudice. How can you measure prejudice, even before meeting someone, or having any knowledge about who they are? It is just like seeing someone for the first time and saying that they are a bad or good person. You do not know that just by the way the person looks, or talks, or what clothes they are wearing. How does a computer tell you any of that stuff? Other than the IAT test there is the Bogardus Social Distant Scale. This is a psychological testing scale to measure ones willingness to partake in social contacts. Social distance test is for telling the distance between different groups. Maybe they can hire someone, to do interviews all around the world. I still do not think any of the information would be right, because even today people do not always tell the truth. I thought that the test was interesting, and a little fun, in a...
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...Bryan Yau 1. What were your IAT results? My result is no association between female and male with Science and Liberal Arts. 2. Do you believe your results were accurate? Why or why not? Yes, since the result shown that I have no association or suggest little between female and male with Science and Liberal Arts, I really provided little suggestion, because I really not so familiar with science and liberal arts. However, I suggest the IAT test can provide more question to us, for example, the test can give us some question to write something. 3. What was your reaction when you learned your results? I am shocked. It is because I thought I identified all the gender and sexual when I was doing the mini-game section, then I guess I could get a better result, but it is not. However, it is still a reasonable result for me, because I am really unfamiliar with this field. 4. Regardless of the IAT, do you think that you have hidden gender biases? What is your evidence? No, because I strongly believe human should not have any discrimination, not to any sexual, not to people from different countries. The reason why I say no, because I am student of an international college. We are all the same. 5. In your opinion, how common are hidden gender biases, and how important are they compared with other gender biases? Now a days, I think hidden gender biases are really not a common thing. As we can see, many working fields are contains female and male. So it is not...
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...The results after taking the Race Implicit Attitudes Test (or “IAT”) showed I had a slight, automatic preference for African Americans over European Americans. The IAT models itself on the strengths of association between ideas and evaluations, so in the case of the Race IAT, I had to identify facial images of African Americans and European Americans with words relating to good and bad. I found the IAT to be incredibly biased since the test switched moral concepts between blacks and whites, and often I would get confused with associating words to either race. I later discovered that the IAT is designed to predict behavior and preference towards race, and also connects implicit preference to racial discrimination in the job field, healthcare,...
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...healthier a food item is perceived to be, the lower is its inferred tastiness. H2: When actual tastiness of a food product is controlled for, the healthier the food is portrayed to be, the lower is its judged tastiness. H3: Given a choice between two food products that vary in healthiness, people with a more (versus less) salient enjoyment goal will choose the less healthy option. H4: The pattern of results we predict in H1-H3 holds for both people who report an explicit belief in the unhealthy = tasty intuition and those who do not, but it is stronger among the former group. 3. Because three different experiments were performed, the procedure is rather lengthy. The first experiment, "Implicitness of Belief in Intuition," was designed in order to prove that the belief that unhealthy food tastes good is subconscious, or implicit. This experiment therefore utilized the IAT, or the implicitness association test. 138 college students were the subjects and received extra credit for their participation. The IAT was performed here using IBM computers and Direct RT software. The test subjects received instructions asking them to place different...
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...Write a 150- to 300-word response to the following questions. Do you agree with the results of your IAT. If you are comfortable sharing what are your results? I took the sexual orientation IAT because I hear so much ignorance when it comes to gay and lesbian people. I hate the prejudices and stereotyping that they have to go through and feel they are regular people just like myself who happen to like something I don’t. Their sexual or intimate lives has nothing to do with mine so why go out of my way to be a nasty person or pass judgement when im not all the way right with things I do in everyday life. When I took the test my result was I had an automatic preference to straight people and I have to disagree with those results because I don’t care at all what your sexual preference is. That is their business. I believe I scored this way only because I was kind of slow responding and made some mistakes at some points but not because I was relating any of the words to the gay and straight words. I just made a simple mistake a couple of times. I don’t think a test, especially a test like that can measure what I prefer more or who I prefer more. I believe love has no color, gender, or age. Im very open minded. I also don’t agree that prejudice is measured accurately because know one knows what my thoughts inside my head until Im truly honest and voice them and that is with everyone. Some people are friendly when your around and horrible when their with “their” friends. You could...
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...Association Test I completed the weight IAT. I must say that I must agree with results it gave me. To be honest, I was not surprised by the results, for I claim to know myself very well. That being said, before I even attempted to perform the test, I knew which side of the spectrum I was going to end up. I tried different Implicit association test to see if one could catch me off-guard, but I was not surprised by any of the test I undertook. The other test I took were weapons and gender-career. I see no reason to shy behind my results of the IAT, but I will only reveal the last one I took, which was the weight association test. According to my results the test suggested a strong automatic preference for Thin People compared to Fat People. In other words, I see being Fat as something negative while being thin is positive; which makes sense considering the environment I was raised. In elementary and up to and beyond highschool, the fat kids were always teased, beaten and criticized for their “extra” weight. Anyone, who grow up with those standards to go on, are going to have some prejudice towards heavier set individuals. I can not think of a single person I know who would not have scored a similar result had they had been subjugated to the same beliefs system as I was in my k-12 years. Unless, of course the person finds heavy set individuals appealing or has a close friends or family member who is that affliction. I can not say with complete confidence if these results closely...
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