Implicit Association Tests
Details: Complete at least two of the Implicit Association Tests related to the topics in this course such as race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and ethnicity located on the Project Implicit website. Click on the Topic 2 Resource Project Implicit Social Attitudes link to find the list of tests.
Write a 750-1,000-word reflection that addresses the following:
Identification of the tests you completed.
A detailed summary of the two test results.
An overview of your impressions (address both your strengths and areas of growth in your discussion).
An explanation about how you plan to address areas of growth and increase your cultural competence as a counselor in training. Additionally, identify the ways in which the dispositional values of self-awareness and cultural diversity (CMHC) or respect for diversity of others and reflection (SC) support this process. Refer to the dispositional values for your respective programs in the Class Resources.
A description of how your cultural and spiritual beliefs as a counselor in training could affect the therapeutic alliance with future clients.
An analysis about why it is important for counselors to understand their biases in regard to racial and cultural differences.
A minimum of three goals in your plan related to increasing your cultural competence. Your goals should be specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time bound (S.M.A.R.T.).
Include a minimum of two scholarly journal articles in your response (published within the last 3-5 years).
Rubric:
– Test Identification and Summary of Results
– Strengths and Areas for Growth
– Areas of Growth and Cultural Competence
– Three goals related to Increasing Racial and cultural Biases
– Counselor Dispositional Expectations
– Thesis, Position, or Purpose
– Development, Structure, and Conclusion.
TEST 1 .
Disclaimer
These results are not a definitive assessment of your implicit preference. The results may be influenced by variables related to the test (e.g., the category labels or particular items used to represent the categories on the IAT) or the person (e.g., how tired you are). The results are provided for educational purposes only. Any single IAT is unlikely to predict behavior well for a specific individual. In the aggregate, the IAT can predict behavior such as discrimination in hiring and promotion, medical treatment, and decisions related to criminal justice.
1. What was this study about?
This study was concerned with how people learn to evaluate other people positively or negatively. Specifically, we wanted to know whether implicit and explicit evaluations rely primarily on gender information, behavioral information (e.g., someone has cheated at a poker game), or some combination of both.
2. How was the study conducted?
Today’s study consisted of two learning phases and two test phases.
In learning phase 1, you were introduced to two novel individuals. Unbeknownst to you at this time, the former individual was a woman who had performed immoral behaviors and the latter individual was a man who had performed moral behaviors.
In the test phase 1, you were asked to complete an Implicit Association Test (IAT), which measured your automatic implicit attitudes toward the two individuals that you had learned about.
In this IAT, you associated good and bad words with the two individuals. If your result was described as “you were faster at sorting ‘female target’ with ‘good’ and ‘male target’ with ‘bad’ than ‘female target’ with ‘bad’ and ‘male target’ with ‘good’,” most researchers would interpret this result to mean that you have an implicit preference for the female over the male individual about whom you have learned in the study. Conversely, the opposite difference in speed of sorting would be interpreted to indicate an implicit preference for the male over the female target. Depending on the magnitude of your speed difference for the two combination tasks, your result may have been described as “slightly faster,” “moderately faster,” “much faster,” or “about equally fast.”
We also asked you to complete some questionnaire measures to see whether your explicit (self-reported) attitudes and implicit attitudes behaved similarly or differently.
In learning phase 2, it was revealed to you that one of the individuals was a woman who had performed immoral behaviors and the other individual was a man who had peformed moral behaviors. In test phase 2, you then completed the same measures again as in test phase 1.
3. What was the hypothesis?
We predicted that implicit attitudes would reflect primarily the gender information, resulting in an implicit preference for the female over the male target. Meanwhile, we predicted that explicit attitudes would primarily reflect the behavioral information, resulting in an explicit preference for the male over the female target. The reason for this expected difference is that implicit attitudes tend to reflect category-level information (e.g., gender) relatively stronger, whereas explicit attitudes tend to reflect individuating information (e.g., what behaviors has this individual performed?) relatively stronger.
TEST 2.
You were much faster at sorting ‘Black people’ with ‘Bad’ and ‘White people’ with ‘Good’ than ‘White people’ with ‘Bad’ and ‘Black people’ with ‘Good’
Disclaimer
These results are not a definitive assessment of your implicit attitudes and beliefs. The results may be influenced by variables related to the test (e.g., the category labels or particular items used to represent the categories on the IAT) or the person (e.g., how tired you are). The results are provided for educational purposes only. Any single IAT is unlikely to predict behavior well for a specific individual. In the aggregate, IATs can predict behavior such as discrimination in hiring and promotion, medical treatment, and decisions related to criminal justice.
1. What was this study about?
In this study, we are exploring implicit associations of Black people and White people with the concepts “victim” and “perpetrator” and how such associations are related to implicit race attitudes (associations of Black people and White people with “good” and “bad”).
2. How was the study conducted?
In this study, you were asked to complete an Implicit Association Test (IAT), which was designed to measure your implicit (automatic) associations between Black people and White people and the concepts “victim” and “perpetrator” or “good” and “bad” (depending on which version you had been randomly assigned to).
On the victim/perpetrator IAT, you associated words related to the concepts “victim” and “perpetrator” with the two groups. If your result was described as “you were faster at sorting ‘Black people’ with ‘victim’ and ‘White people’ with ‘perpetrator’ than ‘Black’ with ‘perpetrator’ and ‘White’ with ‘victim’,” most researchers would interpret this result to mean that you have a stronger mental association between Black people and victim and White people and perpetrator than vice versa. Conversely, the opposite difference in speed of sorting would be interpreted to mean an association between Black people and perpetrator and White people and victim. Depending on the magnitude of your speed difference for the two combination tasks, your result may have been described as “slightly faster,” “moderately faster,” “much faster,” or “about equally fast.”
The good–bad attitude IAT works in exactly the same way, except that it measures associations with positive and negative evaluations. In the end, we also asked you to complete some questionnaire measures to see whether your explicit (self-reported) beliefs and implicit associations behaved similarly or differently, as well as to learn more about your experience in the study.
3. What was the hypothesis?
Based on previous work we expect that Black people might be more associated with the concept of perpetrator and White people with the concept of victim (although less so among politically liberal participants). Here we are also exploring how victim–perpetrator associations relate to good–bad associations (implicit attitudes).
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