Experience With the Implicit Association Test (IAT)
The Implicit Association Test (IAT) is a popular and respected method for measuring implicit attitudes and beliefs. Take a test of your choosing and respond to the following questions regarding your experience.
Write an essay of 750-1,000 words on your experience with the Implicit Association Test (IAT), located on the Project Implicit website; see the “IAT Directions” document for further directions. Include the following:
Describe which test you took and your results.
Discuss if your results surprised you and why or why not.
Interpret the results and discuss if you think they are personally valid for you.
Reflect on the results of your test and your own implicit bias. Briefly explain the causes of prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behaviors you may have seen in others. Discuss any similarities or difference between your bias and others potential bias.
Reflect on how religion affect one’s prejudicial attitudes. Discuss if religion makes or unmakes prejudice.
Consider the overall validity of the IAT. Discuss if you think this test is a valid and reliable measure of implicit bias. Use scholarly research to back up your claims in this section.
Use two to four scholarly resources, for this assignment the textbook can count as a scholarly source.
Implicit Prejudice
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Implicit Association Test (IAT)
The IAT measures implicit beliefs and attitudes. It conducts an assessment of the strength of association between various concepts. I took the Gender-career IAT, which looks at associations between family and gender and gender and career.
The Gender-Career IAT entails sorting words into various categories, including family, career, male, and female. The test checks the strength of a person’s implicit associations between the categories/concepts. My results showed ‘moderate automatic association for male with career and female with family.’ The results mean I have a stronger implicit bias associating women with family and men with careers.
My results surprised me and brought slight discomfort. I have always considered myself a strong advocate for gender equality. I find myself questioning and challenging gender stereotypes and gender biases. Therefore, I was surprised that my results showed implicit associations that reinforce traditional gender roles. However, I realized that my subconscious thinking may have been influenced by the way I have been conditioned in my culture and norms in society, despite my conscious beliefs and actions being associated with gender equality.
The Gender-Career IAT results suggested that an implicit bias exists within me that associates men with careers and women with family. The implicit bias may be stemming from cultural conditioning and societal norms. These reinforce the traditional gender roles. Some of the sources of implicit bias include the media, education, and family upbringing. However, I realize that implicit biases do not necessarily reflect my conscious beliefs and