Implicit Association Test

After taking the Implicit Association Test offered online through Harvard University in collaboration with a few other institutions, I can say that I am somewhat shocked by my results. I took the IAT for automatic preferences of those of European or African decent, essentially my preference of race. In the brief description of the test, it said that the majority of people prefer white over blacks. I thought of myself as being part of the exception group; the very few people who do not fit…

The Implicit Association Test (IAT) was first introduced in the scientific literature in 1998 by Anthony Greenwald, Debbie McGhee, Joyce Sherry, and Jordan Schwartz. The IAT measures attitudes and beliefs that people may be unwilling or unable to report. The IAT is also a computer-based test that measures how rapidly people are able to categorize various words and images, and it capitalizes on the fact that most of us identify words and images more rapidly when it come from closely related…

takes care of the children or the male surgeon about to operate on a patient, it is easy to believe that gender and career association tends to fall into categories. During a time where this controversy is being challenged, it makes us question why people are set to a certain way of beliefs. Self-concept may be one theory that puts emphasis on this; children obtain implicit values at a very young age and carry them throughout their lives. We instill this in them at a young age that will later…

between the two are actually smaller than among members of the same group. Psychology explains what explicit and implicit prejudice while reflecting back on how it applies to racism. Explicit prejudice is the most common kind of prejudice that people are aware…

A female student taking a math test experiences an extra cognitive and emotional burden of worry related to the stereotype that women are not good at math. A reference to this stereotype, even one as subtle as taking the test in a room of mostly men, can adversely affect her test performance. When the burden is removed, however, her performance will improve. Stereotype threat is one compelling explanation…

Should Explicit Attitudinal Measures Be Replaced With Implicit Measures of Attitude? The World Health Organization has calculated that over 800,000 people die annually on a global scale as a result of suicide, and those aged 15 to 29 are at a higher risk. (World Health Organization, 2012). An attitude is "a psychological tendency that is expressed by evaluating a particular entity with some degree of favor or disfavor." (Eagly & Chaikan, 1993, pp. 1). If a person’s attitude corresponds very…

Implicit associations are formed automatically through social experiences and unconscious biases are held as negative attitudes and behaviors towards a social group. The influence of these biases is seen everywhere, including educational forums. Public school systems in the nation reached 49.8 million students grades pre-k through 12th in 2014 and the Department of Defense Education Activity 's (DoDEA) facilities 2014 enrollment was 83,000 students. Exploring the demographic information and…

Writing Reflection 3- Harvard Implicit Association Tests Kiera R. Fry Texas State University The entire test taking experience was an eye opener for me. My results were the complete opposite of what I thought it was going to be. The setup of the test definitely took me by surprise. I was expecting the test to be a questionnaire. When I first started the test, I was to focused on not messing up. I thought if I messed up then it would have a negative effect on my results.…

have to complete multiple IAT tests, I automatically had an idea of what I thought my scores were going to be for each test. For all of the tests, I assumed that I would receive a score of moderate preference. I especially assumed that I would receive a score of moderate preference on the Race IAT test because that was the score that I had received when I took the same test last year. Turns out, I received a moderate preference score on the Gender- Career and Age IAT tests, and a strong…

Ronald Wyatt which discusses racial and ethnic disparities from a health care perspective and why steps should be taken to address it. He shares his experience when confronted with implicit and explicit bias as a patient at a local hospital. Implicit bias is behavior that results from subtle implicit attitudes and implicit stereotypes that often happen unconsciously and without any overt intent. I personally connect to this article as I recall several instances where my mother, grandmother and…