If you asked, most people would claim to have no biases against others – yet we have abundant evidence that such bias still exists. Are people lying? Maybe, but the Implicit Association Test reveals that people could honestly believe they’re unbiased, yet possess biases just the same.
1. Roger claims not to be racist, but his score on the Implicit Association Test (IAT) indicates that he associates African-American faces with negative words. Which of the following statements can most fairly be said to apply to Roger?
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2. What is the dependent variable the Implicit Associates Test (IAT) measures?
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3. The researcher most closely associated with the Implicit Association Test in the video is:
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4. Which of the following statements best describes the overt task of the IAT?
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5. The origin of the bias the IAT is designed to assess can be best described as the participant’s:
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6. In taking the IAT on racial bias, Brian sees European-American or African-American faces and has to put them into a category described by two terms. Which of the following is not a valid category description:
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7. All else being equal, if a person took the IAT many times, what kind of differences would you expect to see in their scores?
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8. An individual may, in certain circumstances, show less racial bias on the IAT than their previous IAT scores would suggest. What would the video suggest could account for this?
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9. According to the developer of the Implicit Association Test, what can we say about the stability of implicit biases?
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