Personal Attitudes on Weight Preferences: Implicit Association Test (IAT)

Personal Attitudes and Weight Preferences: Implicit Association Test (IAT)
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Personal Attitudes on Weight Preferences: Implicit Association Test (IAT)
Examine how attitudes are formed
Attitudes are often the result of upbringing and experience and significantly influence behavior. From a psychological point of view, attitudes are the feelings and beliefs of an individual or a group of individuals. While they may change, attitudes are also enduring, particularly those formed in the childhood stages of human development. In essence, learning attitude is gradual, spanning from childhood into adulthood. The three essential components of attitudes are emotional, behavioral, and emotional (Bakanauskas, KondrotienД—, & Puksas, 2020). The informational component consists of ideas, values, beliefs, or other forms of information an individual has about an object or subject. The emotional or affective component focuses on the outcomes of the informational component, while the behavioral component establishes the behavioral outcomes of certain attitudes.
Thus, based on these components, attitudes are formed through direct personal experience, association, peer & family groups, mass communication, and other factors like occupation and economic status. The most critical component of the current paper is association. For instance, when individuals come across a new subject or object associated with an old subject or attitude, they tend to associate attitudes toward the old subject/object with the new one (Phelan et al., 2014). For instance, when a person is brought up in a family or society that values thin people as the model and standard of beauty, a person brought up in such a society tends to have a more positive affinity toward thin people and negative attitudes toward the ideas of fat. Thus, when such a person meets a fat person or associates with a fat person, their long-held attitudes may influence their behavior around the person.
Discuss how implicit personal biases can form understandings at a local, national or global level.
Often, people are biased when, rather than being neutral, they hold a preference for a group of people or a person. Implicit bias, therefore, describes when people have attitudes towards others or associate stereotypes with a group of people without being consciously aware. In other words, implicit bias is formed alongside the development of attitudes, regardless of whether the developed attitudes are prejudiced or not. Therefore, implicit personal bias is the personal attitudes or stereotypes one associates with another person from a different group. Like attitudes, implicit personal bias is also a product of experience, upbringing, or social institutions and influences how people perceive, interact with, and treat others compared to those from in-group. As a result, if the in-group is a large community capable of forming a local government, a national government, or even having a global influence, the implicit personal bias can form part of the u...