I decided to do the 20-minute experiment that the professor had put up on the blog: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/research/
It was fun, and these are the results and information it gave me:
You have completed the study.
Thank you for your participation.
At the beginning of the study you completed the Pairs task. With this task we tried to form an association between three groups. We tried to do that by changing the probability of seeing each of the possible pairs during the task. For instance, in your study, the two pairs that appeared more often than the rest were crossing lines with Self and Self with rocks. We are testing whether performing the Pairs task forms associations in memory that can be detected by the IAT. Here are your IAT results:
Your data suggest a strong automatic association of Crossing Lines with Other and Parallel Lines with Self.
Your data suggest a moderate automatic association of Trees with Other and Rocks with Self.
Your data suggest no difference in your association between Crossing Lines or Parallel Lines with Trees or Rocks.
The IAT is a measure of implicit attitudes. For example, your score was described as 'automatic association of Trees with Self and Rocks with Other.' if you were faster responding when Trees and Self stimuli were assigned to the same key than when giving the same response to the Trees and Other stimuli. Conversely, your score was described as 'Trees with Other and Rocks with Self' if you were faster responding when Trees and Other stimuli were assigned to the same key than when giving the same response to the Trees and Self stimuli. Depending on the magnitude of your speed difference for the two combination tasks, your automatic association may be described as 'slight', 'moderate', 'strong', or 'little to no association.' The same logic applies to the other two IATs.
The IAT score may be influenced by a number of variables, including your familiarity with the categories and the particular items used to represent the categories. If you had any associations between these odd categories, why might that be? Some of it might have been influenced by the training in the pairs task. Other influences might be random reasons that concepts like these get linked in memory, or perhaps influences of the procedure itself.
The results of the study will help us learn more about the way that associations are stored in the mind. We are grateful for your contribution to this study.
Thank you for your participation.
At the beginning of the study you completed the Pairs task. With this task we tried to form an association between three groups. We tried to do that by changing the probability of seeing each of the possible pairs during the task. For instance, in your study, the two pairs that appeared more often than the rest were crossing lines with Self and Self with rocks. We are testing whether performing the Pairs task forms associations in memory that can be detected by the IAT. Here are your IAT results:
Your data suggest a strong automatic association of Crossing Lines with Other and Parallel Lines with Self.
Your data suggest a moderate automatic association of Trees with Other and Rocks with Self.
Your data suggest no difference in your association between Crossing Lines or Parallel Lines with Trees or Rocks.
The IAT is a measure of implicit attitudes. For example, your score was described as 'automatic association of Trees with Self and Rocks with Other.' if you were faster responding when Trees and Self stimuli were assigned to the same key than when giving the same response to the Trees and Other stimuli. Conversely, your score was described as 'Trees with Other and Rocks with Self' if you were faster responding when Trees and Other stimuli were assigned to the same key than when giving the same response to the Trees and Self stimuli. Depending on the magnitude of your speed difference for the two combination tasks, your automatic association may be described as 'slight', 'moderate', 'strong', or 'little to no association.' The same logic applies to the other two IATs.
The IAT score may be influenced by a number of variables, including your familiarity with the categories and the particular items used to represent the categories. If you had any associations between these odd categories, why might that be? Some of it might have been influenced by the training in the pairs task. Other influences might be random reasons that concepts like these get linked in memory, or perhaps influences of the procedure itself.
The results of the study will help us learn more about the way that associations are stored in the mind. We are grateful for your contribution to this study.
I didn't really know what to expect when I clicked on the link, but it turned out to be a fun brainteaser type of thing. It was meant to be done quickly, but without messing up the answer. I had fun with it, and I think everyone else should try it.
3 comments:
How accurate do you find it? What do you think the implications of the study are?
I think the implications of the study were to see how quickly and accurately you can choose which picture belongs to what category. The fewer times you mess up, the more accurate your results are. I guess it was just a test of the mind and how quickly your hands and mind worked together. As far as it being accurate, I guess it was. I messed up a few times, but overall I put all the objects into their matching categories.
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