Implicit and Explicit Memory The brain's memory systems are divided into two types: implicit memory and explicit memory. The main difference between implicit and explicit memory is their relation to consciousness: explicit memory transport data to consciousness in the form of images or thoughts, while implicit memory mainly skips consciousness (Memory, 2009). Procedural memory is another type of implicit memory. Procedural memory allows individual to gain specific skills, like using a music instruments
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Study Guide: Exam #4 PSY 100 EMOTION 1. Important Concepts: Emotion, Facial Expressions, Physiological Measures, Autonomic Nervous System, Sympathetic & Parasympathetic Nervous Systems, Fight-or-Flight Response, James-Lange Theory of Emotion, Basic Emotions 2. What four components make up what we think of as emotion? 3. What are some types of physiological measures psychologists use to measure emotion? 4. What is the purpose of the autonomic nervous system? 5. What roles do the sympathetic
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members (Hamilton, 1981). If implicit prejudice and implicit stereotypes are dependent then any alteration to the stereotypes should produce corresponding changes in prejudice, however if they are independent then prejudice should remain unaffected. On one hand, several researchers argue that implicit prejudice and stereotypes are dependent constructs. Researchers have found that training in negotiation and affirmation lead to changes in both implicit stereotypes and implicit prejudice, which supports
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com). DOI: 10.1002/acp.1257 Brand Logo and Name Association: It’s all in the Name HEATHER BUTTLE1* and NIKKI WESTOBY2 1 2 Massey University, New Zealand University of Wales, Bangor, UK SUMMARY Despite the expense of designing and the popularity of using logos to represent brands, there is a paucity of information on how such symbols are processed. This series of experiments used Repetition Blindness (RB) to measure implicit association of logos and names that varied in (1) the abstractness
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IATImplicit 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
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explains four related sources of unintentional unethical decision making. They are implicit forms of prejudice, bias that favors one's own group, conflict of interest and overclaiming credit. Implicit forms of prejudice is also known as unconscious stereotypes and attitudes towards people. In the mid 1990's professor Tony Greenwald (university of Washington) developed a tool called Implicit Association Test (IAT). This test exposes your decisions making based on race, gender, religion and so on. Bias
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Psychological Report Report: An Implicit Test of the Associations between Children and Sex in Pedophiles. My article was on the new development of using implicit measure to find out the associations that pedophiles and nonpedophilic offenders have between the topics issued with children/adults words and sex/nonsex words . With cases were the participant have been resistant to making this information known, it has been very effective in assessing there sexual beliefs. There were 78 male men who
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The tests that I chose to take this time on the Harvard Implicit Association Test was the test on weight and the test on skin tones. For the weight Implicit test, I was neutral; it stated that I preferred over weight and underweight people equally. For this particular test it was completely accurate. When it comes to weight, I have no preference; people are still people and deserve the same chance in life as the next person in line. Even when it comes to relationships, I’ve never been one to judge
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particular study is to examine whether or not White subjects are fearful of ethnic minorities because of the previous knowledge of racial shooting biases. Another focus of this study is to determine if dehumanization and empathy change this idea of association of white fear in relation to racial shooting biases. The researchers predicted higher levels of fear were associated to shooting Blacks compared to Whites. Also to expand the research, the researchers formed another study that included Black and
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Name: Hasham Tariq Reg no: 12882 Subject: Research Proposal 1 (Rp1) Class: Tuesday 6 to 9 Assignment: Abstract/References of 10 research papers (Motivation/Discrimination) Submitted to: Dr Akif Hussain / Dr Imtiaz Subhani 1. When Searching Hurts: The Role of Information Search in Reactions to Gender Discrimination Abstract Two laboratory studies conducted with Dutch students explored women’s motivation to search for evidence of gender discrimination and its effects on psychological
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