olviias notes

Question 1

Project implicit

Answer 1

Implicit social cognition: “thoughts and feelings outside of conscious awareness and control”
Goal is: “to educate the public about hidden biases and to provide a virtual laboratory for collecting data on the internet”
We have many unconscious biases but it is important to know that so we can change them in some cases or trust them in others

Question 2

what is realibikty

Answer 2

ability to provide consistent data

Question 3

issues with the IAT test

Answer 3

Test-Retest Reliability
Internal Consistency

Question 4

Test-retest:

Answer 4

does the scale give similar results over time?
The IAT doesn’t consistently provide the same results over time. A person may take the test today and then take it again a few months later and get different results, even though their biases might not have changed.

Question 5

Internal Consistency

Answer 5

do different versions or portions of the scale give similar results
IAT’s different blocks (for example, associating words or faces with positive or negative concepts) sometimes yield inconsistent results. This means the scale doesn’t always produce the same outcome when it’s broken into smaller parts.

Question 6

validity

Answer 6

measuring intended target

Question 7

Face validity:

Answer 7

does the scale seem appropriate for what it is supposed to measure?
does this

Question 8

Content validity:

Answer 8

does the scale include the right questions and exclude the wrong questions?
does this

Question 9

Criterion Validity

Answer 9

How Well the Test Predicts Related Behaviors
Concurrent Validity (❌)
Predictive Validity (❌)

Question 10

concurrent validity

Answer 10

is the scale correlated with current related behaviours

Question 11

predictive validity

Answer 11

does the scale predict failure?

Question 12

Construct Validity –

Answer 12

Does the Test Measure What It’s Supposed To?
convergent
discriminant

Question 13

convergent

Answer 13

is the scale measuring the same as similar scales

Question 14

discriminant

Answer 14

is the scale measuring something different from different scales?

Question 15

Types of variables:

Answer 15

Categoricale variable: data that reflects groups or categories
brands of cereal, colors of the rainbow
Numerical variable: data that are numbers based
age, height, weight

Question 16

types of measures

Answer 16

Nominal and ordinal: Measures that describe categorical variables
Interval and ratio: measures that describe numerical variables