Imagine That You Want to Design an IAT to Assess

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Essay

Imagine that you want to design an IAT to assess prejudice toward people who are overweight. Describe how you might design such a test, and explain what response patterns would indicate greater prejudice.

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Definitions:

Binomial Distribution

A probability distribution that represents the number of successes in a fixed number of independent trials, with only two possible outcomes.

Binomial Experiment

An experiment or trial that leads to two possible outcomes, often termed success and failure, and follows a binomial distribution.

Identical Trials

Trials in a probability experiment that share the same conditions and possible outcomes.

Success

Achieving a desired outcome or reaching a predefined criterion of performance.