In this experiment, Kay Deaux and Tim Emswiller are testing and analyzing the attributions made to luck versus skill in explaining the performance of a stimulus person. They hypothesized that when people are asked to evaluate the performance of a male or a female on either a male or female related task, where they both perform equally well on both tasks, the male’s performance will be attributed to skill, while the female’s performance will be attributed to luck. On the other hand, when it’s a female related task, the female’s performance will be more strongly attributed to skill and the male’s performance will be more strongly attributed to luck. Previous investigations of male and female performance in equivalent situations has …show more content…
The test taking partners were previously taped recordings by either a male or female answering the discrimination questions. The subjects were told that the test taker would be shown a series of pictures on a video of familiar objects embedded in a camouflaged background. Each picture was shown for approximately one second and the test taker would then have to make a true or false response determining whether the object seen on screen was the same as the one listed. The subjects would hear the question number and the true or false response of the test taker. The subjects were given mimeographed answer forms that were assumed to match the ones in front of the test takers. The subjects answer forms contained the correct answers so that they could keep track of the test takers scores. There were two tasks consisting of twenty-five questions each. The first consisted of household objects and was female oriented. The second consisted of mechanical objects and was male oriented. There was only one task completed during each experimental session chosen by the experimenter. The instructions given to each subject emphasized that a person’s performance is influenced by factors such as luck, ability, and effort. These factors were told to be kept in mind as well as the tone and hesitation in the test takers voice.
In each case the test-takers answered 16 of the 25 questions correctly, while the norm was told to the subjects
People who are stereotyped don't do well on test that measure your cognitive skills. In the first passage they said that women who feel discriminated against showed to be more hostal in a group. One group of women was giving the test and was told that it was measuring whether or not they were capable and smart in math. The other group was given support to do well on the test. The group that was stereotyped had a harder time on the test.
When people have different upbringings then it can be difficult to make them see how some of the values they were raised with may be discriminatory (1), one way to attempt to overcome this could be by including various different examples of discrimination within
The following questions are samples of the free response questions from past AP Psychology exams. The free response sections are worth 33 1/3 percent of the total grade. Students have 50 minutes to answer two questions. The key to successfully answering these questions is to: completely define the terms using appropriate psychological terminology and then critically apply each term. Many students concentrate their efforts on the multiple-choice sections. However, the free response section is extremely important. While grammar and spelling do not count, students should make a serious effort at producing a quality piece of writing to ensure their points are completely understood by the
11. Explain how a person may suffer from multiple discrimination and how it might affect them.
In a quiet college classroom, participants were individually tested, with a seat positioned in view of a computer, and a seat on the side for the experimenter to sit. There were four tasks for the participants to complete, that were timed. The participants were told that if they were to make an error by naming the wrong color, to correct it and read the next color, as the experimenter would write how many errors
Analysis As we were conducting our experiment, we collected data so we would be able to determine the differences between males and females. The students then had to take a mini quiz that we had made for the five males and five females, ten students of the age between fifteen through eighteen. We gave the students the quizzes so it would be indiscriminate and not planned. We conducted the quiz three times with each quiz having two questions.
When multiple people are given assessments of some kind or are the subjects of some test, then similar people under the same circumstances should lead to scores that are similar or duplicates ("Types Of Reliability", 2011). This is the idea of inter-rater reliability. Another mode of reliability is the administration of the same test among different participants and expecting the same or similar results ("Types Of Reliability", 2011). This is known as Test-retest reliability. This method of measurement might be used to make determinations about the effectiveness of a school exam or personality test ("Types Of Reliability", 2011). Surveys and other methods of research present the appropriate avenues for data collection.
The following is a summary of the main discrimination issues that were researched based on the ideas proposed:
The first study involves seventy-one undergraduate students, male and female, who ranged in age from seventeen to fifty-six years. The experiment entailed the participants to write an essay particularly pertaining
They begin by testing forty undergraduates, the control group, and sixty-one law enforcement officers, the experiment group, to determine if there is a difference in observation skills and change blindness rates. The two groups were in two separate testing sessions. The groups were shown a 2 minute, 44 second video clip from a police officer’s dashboard camera, where the driver exits his car and then the driver and the police officer leave the frame. When the driver and the police officer re-enter the frame, the driver is replaced by another man, very physically different from driver 1, in different clothing from driver 1. Upon completion of the film, the participants completed both open-ended questions, multiple-choice questions, as well as rating their confidence of their
The research method followed in this study is an experiment because there are two variables identified as dependent and independent variables. Also, the experimenters assigned participants randomly
Two undergraduates (1 male, 1 female) from Grinnell College took part in this experiment. Students were asked to participate as part of their Introduction to Psychology course. Participants were randomly assigned to three similar assessments. Participant A took part in two assessments, the blue and the
In addition, people would overall find the task hard, will become frustrated and will not be able to complete the task in one minute. Two evaluations were taken in the anagram performance that collected the data for the number of fail attempts to solve the anagrams and the mean of responses potential (Henderson & Lohr, 1982). The individuals responses to the questionnaires were more affected negatively than positive. Participants were mostly frustrated by having to solve the anagram. Even though there wasn’t a time limit, the participants felt as if they didn’t meet the one minute rule and felt as if they weren’t smart enough. As mentioned by Harris & Tryon (1983), they implicated the nature of the instructions as an important variable for producing response deficits and the different effects should result from telling a subject (correctly or incorrectly) that he or she can solve the task at
Glass begins with a prearranged true-false quiz which shows how many of our preconceived biases about differences between the sexes and how they communicate are actually false (Glass, 1994). Glass (1994) states that women are not statistically shown to be more intuitive than men. However, they have been discovered to be more detail oriented in both their
Psychological tests or psychological assessments are an important asset in the field of psychology. These tests are designed to measure people’s characteristics which pertain to behavior. There are a variety of different types of tests that can be used to assess different types of behaviors. According to the specific behavior or behaviors being assessed, tests are