IAT Flashcards
What does the IAT test assess?
Target-concept discrimination and attribute dimension
What is the first step in IAT test?
Assign one category to a response by the left hand and the other to a response by the right hand
What is the second step in IAT?
Introduction of the attribute dimension
Also in the form of a two-category discrimination
What is step 3 in IAT?
Target discrimination and attribute dimension are superimposed and the stimuli for target and attribute discrimination appear in alternate trials
What is IAT?
A measure within social psychology designed to detect the strength of a persons automatic association between mental representation of objects in memory
IAT
A computer based measure
What does IAT measure?
Implicit attitudes
Develop theories to understand implicit cognition
What does IAT processes include,
Memory Perception Attitudes Self-esteem Stereotype
What does IAT require?
Users make a rapid judgements
What does IAT score reflect?
Attitudes which people are unwilling to reveal publically
What does IAT allow researches to do?
Get around the difficult problem of social-desirability bias
How many task does IAT procedure involve?
7 tasks
What is the first task of IAT?
An individual is asked to categorise stimuli into two categories