PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Implicit-Association Test, Cockroach, Construals

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 215
• Professor: Mark Baldwin

Document Summary

Implicit self-esteem = automatic or nonconscious, gut-reaction to oneself: not something that is pondered upon but an almost unaware or gut- reaction to self, measured with implicit association test , reaction time test to assess evaluative associations, ex. If you see self" and cockroach" easily associated with self/bad" then that can indicate an implicit low self-esteem: interference effects = higher implicit high self-esteem. Dirty (dressed poorly: results , when mr. clean came in, self-esteem went down, when mr. If you consider something as unimportant to you, it won"t matter to you as much if you fail or succeed. = got a 12/15 or 3/15 (not real grades: they were then led to attribute to an internal or external cause, ex. = score reflects something about you or something about the test: dv measured = feelings of self-esteem, results , external cause feelings of positive self-esteem didn"t really change as a result of getting success of failure feedback.