Implicit Association Test

At the beginning of the school year, I thought I would hate having to blog. Well my attitude has changed as this is my second post of the day! I guess you could say that I have become addicted to blogging. I also look forward to those who read my posts to comment. Feel free to share your opinions!!
A few months ago, I had to write a paper in Social Psychology based on an Implicit Association Test, commonly known as an IAT. This test is used to measure the attitudes of a person towards a certain object in the environment. Once on the website, there are a number of sample tests with topics ranging from sexuality to weapons to age to gender science to race etc. I did sample many of these tests including the test based on race. I know one student in our class had mentioned this test during Tuesday's class but i want to go into further detail in regards to taking the test. The test requires participants to distinguish faces of people with European and African origin. Implicitly, partipants are first asked to place their fingers on the keyboard and press key "E" for faces associated with African Americans and key "I" for faces associated with European Americans. Next, participants are asked to press key "E" with words related to "good" and key "I" with words related to "bad." Once this is completed, races are paired with words; press key "E" for African American faces or "good" words and key "I" for European American or "bad" words. The opposite happens and key "E" is used for faces of European Americans or "good" words and key "I" is used for faces of African Americans or "bad" words. Once this task is completed, a list of questions are asked of the participant before a final answer regarding one's preference is stated. Of course, one may not agree with their results and the participant has a chance to express their feelings towards the IAT test.
I encourage all who read this post to visit the website and experiment with a few of the tests!
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/takeatest.html