A Behavior Analytically Modified Implicit Association Test for Measuring Sexual Categorization of Children
| Autor: | Maria R. Ruiz, Bryan Roche, Anthony O’Reilly, Amanda Gavin, Maria Hogan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Předmět: |
050103 clinical psychology
education.field_of_study Implicit cognition 05 social sciences Population Implicit-association test Stimulus (physiology) Developmental psychology Pedophilia Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Categorization Sexual abuse Task analysis 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology Psychology education General Psychology |
| Zdroj: | The Psychological Record. 62:55-68 |
| ISSN: | 2163-3452 0033-2933 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/bf03395786 |
| Popis: | The current study assessed the sexual categorization of children among a random sample of adults from the general population. Twenty-seven males and 27 females (N = 54) were exposed to a categorization task that assessed their ability to discriminate adult- from child-related words and sexual from non-sexual words. Then, in a modified Implicit Association Test they were required to respond with a particular key press to individual child- and adult-related stimuli paired with either sexual or nonsexual stimuli. In another block of testing the pairs of stimuli requiring a common key response were juxtaposed. There was more effective acquisition of common response functions for child/nonsexual than for child/sexual stimulus pairs for all participants combined. This effect was also observed for female participants separately but not for males. These findings support the utility of behavior-analytic variations of the Implicit Association Test but raise important considerations regarding their use as forensic and diagnostic tools. (Contains 4 figures and 1 table.) |
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