Lab Exercise with Quizzing
Read the materials, click on the lab exercise links and take the quizzes. Please note these will open in a new window.
Lab Exercise 1: Implicit Association Test
This exercise helps address the causes and consequences of prejudice and bias. Perform the implicit association test and be prepared to discuss your results.
Follow-Up Quiz
1. The demonstration uses the Implicit Association Test to measure whether participants have an automatic association between two concepts. One test measured the relationship between male/female and career/family. If times are faster when male and career responses are paired it suggests that the respondent has a ______.
- weak association between males and career
- weak association between females and family
- strong association between males and career
- weak association between females and career
2. The demonstration uses the Implicit Association Test to measure whether participants have an automatic association between two concepts. One test measured the relationship between male/female and career/family. If times are faster when female and career responses are paired it suggests that the respondent has a ______.
- weak association between males and family
- weak association between females and family
- strong association between males and career
- strong association between females and career
3. The demonstration uses the Implicit Association Test to measure whether participants have an automatic association between two concepts. One test measured the relationship between male/female and career/family. If times are faster when female and family responses are paired it suggests that the respondent has a ______.
- weak association between males and family
- weak association between females and family
- strong association between males and career
- strong association between females and family
Lab Exercise 2: Expertise Effects Demonstration
Where does expertise come from? Perform this demonstration to find out and then take the quiz.
Follow-Up Quiz
1. In this demonstration, the task should be easier in the second run-through than the first run-through.
- True
- False
2. The task is easier after practice due to the effects of ______.
- the creation of a concept hierarchy
- expertise
- a basic level concept
- a superordinate level concept
3. Imagine running through this demonstration another 30 times. In this case, you would expect your accuracy level to ______.
- decrease
- increase
- remain the same
Lab Exercise 3: Implicit Dot Clearing Test
This experiment is used to demonstrate network approaches: spreading activation. Once a concept is activated, its subsequent processing is facilitated. Perform the test after reading the brief instructions by clicking “launch demo.” Next, take the quiz.
Follow-Up Quiz
1. This demo presents individual words for a short time, and later tested for implicit memory.
- True
- False
2. You are tested immediately after each word presented.
- True
- False
3. When tested for the time it takes to identify the word, the words are partially occluded by a cloud of dots.
- True
- False