What Does the Implicit Association Test (IAT)demonstrate

question 27

Multiple Choice

What does the Implicit Association Test (IAT) demonstrate?

• A)Men and women have different brains;women,on average,make implicit associations faster than men do.
• B)Our brains often associate feminine and masculine items with one another;it takes longer to identify a name as male if it was preceded by a feminized word rather than a masculinized word.
• C)Our brains can quickly make cognitive shifts;it doesn't take any longer to identify a name as male if it was preceded by a feminized word than with a masculinized word.
• D)Men and women have different brains;men,on average,make implicit associations faster than women do.

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Definitions:

Normal Distribution

A bell-shaped curve which describes the spread of a characteristic throughout a population, where most occurrences take place around the central peak and probabilities for values taper off equally towards both tails.

Symmetry

Symmetry in statistics refers to a situation where the two halves of a distribution mirror each other across a central point.

Modality

Refers to the manner or mode in which something exists or is experienced or expressed.

Normal Distributions

A symmetric probability distribution around the mean, demonstrating that frequencies decrease as distances from the mean increase.