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 ______.

  1. weak association between males and career
  2. weak association between females and family
  3. strong association between males and career
  4. weak association between females and career

Ans: C

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 ______.

  1. weak association between males and family
  2. weak association between females and family
  3. strong association between males and career
  4. strong association between females and career

Ans: D

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 ______.

  1. weak association between males and family
  2. weak association between females and family
  3. strong association between males and career
  4. strong association between females and family

Ans: D

 

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.

  1. True
  2. False

Ans: T

2. The task is easier after practice due to the effects of  ______.

  1. the creation of a concept hierarchy
  2. expertise
  3. a basic level concept
  4. a superordinate level concept

Ans: B

3. Imagine running through this demonstration another 30 times. In this case, you would expect your accuracy level to  ______.

  1. decrease
  2. increase
  3. remain the same

Ans: B

 

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.

  1. True
  2. False

Ans: T

2. You are tested immediately after each word presented.

  1. True
  2. False

Ans: B

3. When tested for the time it takes to identify the word, the words are partially occluded by a cloud of dots.

  1. True
  2. False

Ans: A