Describe in detail the Implict Association Test. What does this test? Who are the researchers?
The Implict Associations Test is a test that takes someone 's beliefs and attitude into account in order to find out their true thoughts on specific topics (e.g. Gender, skintone, sexuality and so on), whether the person is aware of these thoughts or not. This test tests the unconcious mind of the people who take it. The researchers of this test are N.Sriram, Brian Nosek, Mahzarin Banaji and Tony Greenwald.
I chose do four of the implict association tests and here are my results:
Age: The results for this told me that I have a strong preference for young people compared to old people which kind of shocked me as I had always thought it equally perfered the two categories. Although I was surprised with my results, it does make sense for my unconcious thoughts to lean towards the young side as I spend most of
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Although this is the case and I still believe it to be true, I assume that because I don 't know too many gay people personally, my unconcious thoughts prefer straight people.
Gender: For the test on gender my results stated that I have a moderate association of females with humanities and males with sciences. This test was one of the ones that made me realize the most. I have always loved science subjects in school and I still do, but my results showed that I associate males with sciences more than females. I have never thought about this too much as I have always thought about getting a job involved with science and never really doubted the association with woman and sciences. I believe that I got the results I did because of the fact that my unconcious thoughts came into