IAT And Regression Analysis

The Implicit Association Test (IAT) I chose to take was the Race IAT test. It tests the users ability to associate with images of European Americans (white) and African Americans (black) as well as words that correspond to good and bad. The normative results are that most Americans tend to have some form of an automatic association with European Americans. My results were typical. I felt a little embarrassed at first in reaction to seeing the results of a slight automatic preference to European Americans. I even took the test again to see if I would be better prepared for it and the result remained the same.

For the implicit association test (IAT), I took the weight test. The result from the weight test result said that I preferred thin people slightly over overweight people which was in line with what I felt. My bias which favors thin over husky people is probably due to the influence of every social media outlet in America. No matter where people look, whether it is at magazines, commercials, ads, movies, social trends, television shows, or cartoons, a majority of the time only thin people appear. Social media constantly bombards my eyes and thoughts with positive connotations of skinny people, which might have led to my unconscious favoring of a lean body type versus an overweight body type. According to Brian A. Nosek and Rachel G. Riskand, even a brief exposure to an image would cause observers to have an implicit bias towards the image which is moderately scary. This means that people with power like policymakers, employers, and the police can be easily form an implicit bias with the chance of affecting their behavior

The main purpose of the Implicit Association Test (IAT) is to understand social cognition in individuals. Furthermore, the IAT measures individual differences in implicit attitudes, stereotypes, and self-esteem, which are an extension of its original use of intergroup attitudes. The IAT is used under several applications including clinical, developmental, marketing, health, legal, and its main usage involves implicit social cognition. Hundreds of studies of psychological processes have used the IAT and its measurements due to its success. The IAT’s development started through psychologists that created computer based measures of unconscious cognition after microcomputers made it possible to measure mental computation in milliseconds in the

The IAT results measure implicit attitudes and stereotypes towards a group of people. They also measure the bonding between the associations and concepts. For example, I was quick at categorizing when both European Americans

Jurors are more likely to favor those belonging to the same racial category because they can connect more easily with members of the same race. Implicit racial biases are measurable; researchers use The Implicit Association Test, or IAT, to measure and study implicit biases (Elek & Hanaford-Agor, 2013). The test’s underlying idea is that a person will be able to quickly and easily associate concepts related to an idea that is more consistent with his or her attitudes and beliefs. Researchers have shown connections between implicit racial bias, jury verdicts, and how jurors observe evidence. In a study conducted by Levinson and Young, mock-jurors who were shown photographic evidence of a dark-skinned gunman rated the defendant’s guilt 66.97 on a 100-point scale. Mock-jurors who were shown photographic evidence of a light-skinned gunman rated the defendant’s guilt 56.37 out of 100 (Elek & Hanaford-Agor, 2013). In another study showing that race is a determining factor of jury verdicts, Eberhardt and colleagues find that those who had more stereotypically Black facial features received the death penalty 57.5% of the time. On the other hand, they find that those with less stereotypically Black facial features were sentenced 24.4% of the time (Elek & Hanaford-Agor,

The Implicit Association Test (IAT) is one that attempts to detect implicit bias by asking test-takers to pair certain racial categories with deciding words like “pleasant” or “unpleasant.” In a test where “implicit bias against African-Americans is defined as faster responses when the "black" and "unpleasant" categories are paired than when the "black" and "pleasant” categories are paired,” “most people tend to prefer white to African American” (Jolls and Sunstein, 2006, p.971). The IAT also found that “scores on the IAT and similar tests are correlated with third parties' ratings of the degree of general friendliness individuals show to members of another race” (Jolls and Sunstein, 2006, p.972). If people associate certain negative traits

There are various tests related to race within the Implicit-Association Test (IAT) like Skin-tone IAT, Native IAT, Race IAT, Asian IAT, etc. The test I took was related to Race IAT opted to complete the African American – European American IAT. In the study, there were three questionnaires and a sorting task involving words and pictures. There was the time limit of 10 minutes. Before starting the test, demographics about my basic information were reported. There were various categories that I had to keep in mind before starting the test. The categories were Good, Bad, African American and European American. The test result helped me identify as colorblindness and also, slightly altered my identity.

For The Implicit Association Task (IAT) assignment, I began with the test titled, Weight ('Fat - Thin' IAT). This IAT requires that ability to distinguish people who are obese and people who are thin. It often reveals an automatic preference for thin people relative to fat people. This test included associated “good” and “bad” words, such as, joyful and ugly to a silhouette sized person that was either thin or obese. There are some questions about beliefs, attitudes, and opinions, and some standard demographic questions.

Social psychology is the study of psychology that deals with social interactions and how it effects the individual. The IAT test observes social psychology effects within an individual. The IAT is a test that measures the connection between White or Black people and the idea of good or bad. The score on the test represents your preference of race. The preference can be linked to negative behavior such as discrimination in the workplace, law enforcement, and other social environments.

I took the Gender-Science IAT test. My results showed that I had a slight automatic association for males with science and females with liberal arts. I was a bit upset with my results considering the fact that I am a female in science. I don’t feel negatively towards females in liberal arts, males in liberal arts or males in science I’m just a tad bothered that the stereotype of males being good at science and math and females being good at the arts still exists in me.

I have heard of implicit bias from my high school AP Psychology class. Implicit bias is bias against a certain group of people based on race, ethnicity, sex, gender, or any other feature. It is bias that is unconscious and may not be known to that individual may not be aware of. Explicit bias is discrimination that someone is consciously aware of. I took the IAT test relating to gender and STEM. I choose that one because am a female in a male dominated STEM career. The results found that I had no preferences with gender and science. I was not surprised by the results of my test. I do not think I associate one gender with science because I see many males and females in my chemistry and calculus class. I will use my knowledge of implicit bias

The Implicit Association Test (IAT) is performed to reveal aspects and traits about a person that they would not be able to admit about themselves if asked. How people act on the outside can often deceive others, but when it comes to this test it is hard to hide the unconscious feelings. This test goes deeper in the mind and thoughts, perhaps more than the person knew about themselves. The test requires quick responses, while also using compatible conditions and incompatible conditions to try to trick the mind. For example, compatible conditions would be whites associated with a positive word and blacks associated with a negative word and incompatible would be vice versa. The basis of the IAT is to measure whether a person has higher or lower

This test will measure the strength of association between the concepts African American of Caucasian and the attributes pleasant and unpleasant. Participants will be asked to categorize words and pictures that represent these concepts and categories. For this experiment, either White faces will paired with pleasant words and Black faces paired with unpleasant words, or White faces will be paired with unpleasant words and Black faces paired with pleasant words. A respondents latency for the two different pairing combinations will be the basis for comparison. If participants were faster to pair White with pleasant and Black with unpleasant than White with unpleasant and Black with pleasant, we assumed that they implicitly preferred Caucasians over African Americans and vice versa.

IAT is an assessment test that test you on different topics to see how you feel towards, and your beliefs about the topics. I chose to take the age and skin tone assessment, but I did not care to much for the tests. It did cause me to view myself a little differently, because I did not feel that the results were the way I felt about the subjects. I did not have that much trust in the test.

How does the Implication of Association Test determines how your attitude is formed, and the different biases you have? The IAT is an assessment that is used to discover your attitudes and beliefs towards certain categories, for example age, gender, and weight (Project Implicit 2011). The IAT provides some general information about yourself as well. Implication of Association Test is given by various categories, and measures by how quickly you respond to the questions (Project Implicit 2011). The results are given at the end of the test and is based off the categorization of the test and not on the questions that you answered (Project Implicit 2011). The performance test that I took was on age difference and it asked questions on my preference for younger or older people. The test also provided questions on words that were good or bad. The rules for the test was to use the letters I and E on the keyboard to answer the questions as quickly