Do your personal results to the demonstration tasks fit with how you see yourself? Why or why not? Describe both test you took. How did you feel after taking the test. I took the test on weight and race, and the results I received after taking the IAT test were shocking at first but after I thought about how I react to certain situations and the people that I would pick to associate with it wasn't surprising. My results for the weight IAT test showed that I had a strong preference to thin people versus fat people. This was very shocking to me in the beginning because I would like to believe that I wouldn't judge someone based on their weight but looking at my results that is not the case. However after looking back at how I act when I am put …show more content…
Unconscious stereotypes could possibly determine who I would walk up to and get help from or which neighborhood I would cut through. I know if I was driving home late at night I would try to find the nicest housing to cut thought or the most lit up area instead of going through an area that had old beaten down houses and busted out street lights. I would be thinking about which part of town would be safer without realizing that I am choosing not to go into a certain part of town because it is mostly black or I am choosing to go somewhere because it is predominately white. The same thing would be said for who I would get weight advice from, I would go somewhere that had a lot of skinny people in it because that is the gal I am trying to attain. I wouldn't get health or weight advice from someone that looks to weight more than me because I would see them as needing their own form of help. The article & the TED Talk discuss that once people are aware of their stereotypes, they may monitor their behavior and thoughts more carefully. Do you think that we can consciously and successfully monitor or even change our
After taking the test the results said that I was little to no automatic preference between African American and European American. This was very shocking to me due to the fact that I see racial actions and comments that are directed to my family and I. Due to the politics and other issues, my attitude has become jagged. I have started to speak my mind right or wrong about the unfairness that I encounter. This really bothers me when it is directed to my children, especially when it comes to sports. I feel that they should not have to deal with this because I did not have to. Having stated all of this and my test results basically concluded that I was neutral, is questionable. At the end of the test there was a survey to take. Here are a few statements or questions from the survey (1) what influenced my score, (2) did the test capture something important about me, (3) did the scores reflect the culture that I am exposed to but not me personally, and (4) how did I find this
After taking this personality test I could not decide if I felt that my results were accurate about me or not. The personality test resulted in describing me as an extravert, intuitive, feeling, and judging (Humanmetrics,
For example, if you see a male who is dressed properly. You will create this image in your head, then you will take this image and turn it into something you have seen; stereotype. “When people first meet others, they cannot help noticing certain highly visible and distinctive characteristics: sex, race, physical appearance, and the like. Despite people's best intentions, their initial impressions of others are shaped by their assumptions about such characteristics.” (Snyder, 1982). As Synder mentions in his article, Self-Fulfilling Stereotypes, we as people, and we as society, like to always judge others and put them into categories such as good vs bad, poor vs rich, healthy vs obese, etc. This makes it extremely hard for people who are in the poor categories to fight the society to make their stereotypes disapper. Society labels people, which I personally believe creates war, ungraceful events, and many disadvantage events for
... took approximately six months, but shows that explicit measure, according to Schneider (2004), “is more prone to recall information that is associated with the stereotype” (p. 60), and thus “can be taken as measures of existence of stereotypes” (Schneider, 2004, p. 60), which the subject revealed – and the original reason for the direct association with the subject and study by the author.
In a 2016 NPR interview with Mahzarin Banaji, co-author of the book “Blindspot”, Banaji(2016) explains “human brains have a certain way in which we go about picking up information, learning it. If I repeatedly see that doctors are male and nurses are female, I'm going to learn that. But the second part to implicit bias is the culture in which we live” (para. 15). Social and news media has had a profound effect on the culture that we live in. If we constantly see black men being shot by police officers it will have a negative impact on the way we view them. One student at the University of Colorado Boulder says “I may not believe it personally, but I am exposed to stereotypes constantly through media or social networks such as the idea that young black men are dangerous,” he said. “Those associations can have an influence on my behavior even if I don’t believe them.” (Correll, 2012, para.
Stereotypes are (often) untrue traits assigned to a person due to their intelligence, race or cultural beliefs just to name a few.
I found it interesting that while the tests may sometimes be accurate, they were not consistent enough to be used in professional situations and were only to be used for educational purposes. As the tests are essentially based on reaction time, if there are distractions that may rob the test taker of their attention, the results can easily be swayed. I took multiple tests that consisted of the gender-career IAT, black-white IAT, and fat-thin IAT. My reason for taking the gender and race IATs is that those two were required and took the weight IAT because I was curious as to what the test would say my preference was. I fully expected to recieve exactly, or close to, the results that the IATs gave
Many researchers have found that, while individuals may be motivated to resist stereotyping and prejudice the initial stereotyping still occurs (Devine, Plant, Amodio, Harmon-Jones & Vance, 2002; Dunton & Fazio, 1997). Scott believes that the initial stereotyping is often coupled with a more controlled process, which can reduce the impact of such stereotyping on judgments, when perceivers are motivated and able to correct for the activated stereotypes thus playing an important role in decision-making (Scott, 2005).
Stereotyping drives our judgments and treatment of other. It is something that most humans do, but most don’t admit it. “A father and his son are in a car accident. The father dies at the scene and the son, badly injured, is rushed to the hospital. In the operating room, the surgeon look at the boy and says,
I am not surprised with the results I received from both inventories because I have always been an auditory listener and I have always had interpersonal intelligences. I know I
The purpose of the test was to help me understand and determine who I really am and what kind of person I am.
Stereotypes have been created for just about every group of people in our society; women, blondes, people who are gay, people of any ethnic or cultural background different from ours, and of course, people with disabilities. (Hoyer) Stereotypes can be made by any judgment anybody thinks about you.Stereotypes are conveyed with many different ways, it causes judgment, hatred and racism. It would be great to live in a world, without stereotyping everybody and everything you see. However nobody is going to stop stereotyping. It’s what gets people throughout the day, even if it's a good or bad stereotype. Somebody is always going to have something to say about you.
Stereotypes are all around us. Wherever one goes there will be stereotypes for people, a specific group, or even animals. For example, pit bulls are known to be very vicious dogs even though there are many pit bulls that are nice and friendly. These stereotype can really cloud people’s judgement of others just solely based on appearance. This prejudgement of a person can really hurt them various ways in the “real world” such as applying for a job. A man that wants to be a nurse can hurt his “manliness” because nurses are thought to be a job for women only.
Stereotypes are all around us. It is something that exists beyond the realm of society’s consciousness. Stereotypes influence judgement, childhood, and character. These are some of the ways that society is trying to solve the puzzle of our differences as a whole.
Stereotypes have burdened society since the beginning of time through their blunt suggestions and detrimental consequences. In many ways, stereotypes are helpful because they inform people of the dangers that they could put themselves in during certain situations or around certain people. However, many individuals and groups have a difficult time understanding that while stereotypes are based in some truths, they do not equally apply to everyone of a particular race or gender. Stereotypes create a feeling of tension and distance that is toxic to society. Therefore, stereotypes are both useful and useless; they allow people to implement caution in possibly dangerous situations, but they also prevent numerous positive interactions in public and