I chose to participate in two IAT tests on the Project Implicit website. The website states that Project Implicit was started by Tony Greenwald and Mahzarin Banaji as a way to virtually perform scientific tests. Project Implicit is a nonprofit organization dedicated to exploring unconscious bias. The tests I took from the site focused on the automatic preference of older or younger people and gay or straight people. Each test required me to sort images and sentences using the “E” and “I” keys. The first groupings were between the two groups of people, followed by two sets of words labeled “good” and bad.” After completing these two sets, the groupings were combined and swapped. For example, the first group consisted of elders and good words. The second round grouped elderly people and swear words. Ultimately, the results determined the group I was most inclined towards. The IAT follows Chapter 13 in the areas of stereotypes, self-fulfilling prophecies, and dispositional attributions. Each assessment forced me to categorize words and symbols, following the definition of stereotype (categorizing people). Along the th...
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