According to Greedwald and Banaji (1995), “implicit attitudes are manifest as actions or judgements that are under the control of automatically activated evaluation, without the performer’s awareness of that causation”. In order to examine it, Implicit Association Test (IAT) was developed to evaluate respondents’ underlying perceptions and attitudes by testing the speed of respondents linking two different concepts with two different evaluative objects (Blanton, Jaccard, Gonzales, & Christie, 2006). It is believed that it is easier to make response to closely related objects sharing a same response key than making response to not related objects sharing a same response key (Project Implicit, 2011). That is, the easier respondents categorize
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I think the reason why I have no automatic preference between black and white people is that I am from a country which does not have a history of black slavery. During history class, I remembered every time when my mentioned about this part of theory, he/she would say is the dark side of human nature. Also, when I read Uncle Tom’s Cabin, I felt sympathize towards black people in this book, and an anger towards the society at that time. Besides for my learning experience when I was young, in China, we do not get to see many black people. Therefore, I think maybe I did not get many chances to “learn” to discriminate black …show more content…
As before the test began, I was told that I need to decide whether to accept a candidate, and I believe I tried to made my decision based not only on look but also on their level of all abilities. Thus, at the beginning, I chose to believe that my result was incorrect. Later when I discuss my results with a friend, she told me that the result was very true, as she remembered, I liked to talk about people’s appearances, how they dress and wear their hair. Then I started to realize maybe I have this issue as every time when someone come to talk to me for the first time, I tend to stare at one very flaw of their appearance. For example, I will stare at one’s pimple if he/she has any, and when I tell my friends about a person I dislike, I make sure I mention how ugly he/she is. This test indeed told me something I do not know about myself
I think the reason why I have no automatic preference between black and white people is that I am from a country which does not have a history of black slavery. During history class, I remembered every time when my mentioned about this part of theory, he/she would say is the dark side of human nature. Also, when I read Uncle Tom’s Cabin, I felt sympathize towards black people in this book, and an anger towards the society at that time. Besides for my learning experience when I was young, in China, we do not get to see many black people. Therefore, I think maybe I did not get many chances to “learn” to discriminate black …show more content…
As before the test began, I was told that I need to decide whether to accept a candidate, and I believe I tried to made my decision based not only on look but also on their level of all abilities. Thus, at the beginning, I chose to believe that my result was incorrect. Later when I discuss my results with a friend, she told me that the result was very true, as she remembered, I liked to talk about people’s appearances, how they dress and wear their hair. Then I started to realize maybe I have this issue as every time when someone come to talk to me for the first time, I tend to stare at one very flaw of their appearance. For example, I will stare at one’s pimple if he/she has any, and when I tell my friends about a person I dislike, I make sure I mention how ugly he/she is. This test indeed told me something I do not know about myself