Implicit Bias
Attitudes that operate in a conscious mode and are exemplified by traditional self-report measures.
What are explicit attitudes?
The variable that is manipulated by the researcher.
What is an independant variable?
A tendency for people to change their perceptions, opinions and behaviours in ways that are consistent with group norms.
What is conformity.
Feeling for another person (typically sorrow or concern).
Schedule of reinforcement that is most powerful at creating long term learning.
What is a variable schedule?
First ever computer test of implicit bias.
What is the Implicit Association Test?
The extent to which all items on a survey measure the same construct.
What is Internal Consistency?
Conformity that occurs because of the desire to be liked and accepted.
What is informational conformity?
What is the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI)?
A consequence that increases the frequency of a behavior by adding something to the environment.
What is positive reinforcement?
El-Rafiy & Brauer (2012) managed to reduce implicit bias using only this.
What is a poster?
A tendency to answer questions in a manner that will be viewed favorably by others.
What is social desirability bias?
Name of the researcher who conducted the original electric shock experiment.
Who is Dr Milgram?
Researcher who conducted a meta-analysis on the effect of VR on empathy.
Who is Alison Jane Martingano?
A stimulus that naturally triggers a response.
What is an unconditioned stimulus?
Having a high level of implicit bias but a low level of explicit bias.
What is Aversive Racism?
The categorization of participant responses requires a judgement call by the researcher.
What is subjective coding?
Two-step compliance technique in which the influencer begins with an inflated request, then decreases its apparent size by offering a discount or bonus.
What is the that's-not-all-technique?
Type of brain cell that fires when observing an action and when performing the same action.
What is a mirror neuron?
A phenomenon that demonstrates that once something has be learnt by conditioning it can never be unlearnt.
What is spontaneous recovery?
The black man who appeared in Todd et al.'s (2011) video where he was a repeated victim of racism whilst going about his daily life.
Who is Glen?
Testing the same research question again with different methodology.
What is a conceptual replication?
Part of the brain that activates when we are in pain.
What is the dACC and anterior insula?
A theory stating there are two distinct routes to empathy.
What is the dual process model of empathy?
Brian waves that occur for stimuli that are evaluatively inconsistent with the surrounding context.
What are P300s?