Question

Consider the Implicit Association Test in which people are asked to categorize words as well as Caucasian/African-American names. If you were to design a similar measure to assess implicit associations related to age, and more specifically, implicit negative beliefs about older people, which pattern of results might your IAT produce to indicate such ageism

Answer 1

The pattern of results might Implicit Association Test produce to indicate such ageism as "The coupling of positive words with older sounding names took longer time than coupling negative words with younger sounding names and vice versa"

Explanation:

The calculation involved in social psychology for finding the potential of an individual's sub-conscious relation between mental demonstration of objects or concepts in memory than such phenomenon is termed as "Implicit-Association Test (IAT)".

Therefore, as IAT itself suggests reason behind conclusion, which involved pairing of positive words with older sounding names took more time than paring of negative words with younger sounding names, vice-versa. This conclusion relate with ageism and address amount of stereotype participants.