The Impact of Relational Training of Preferred Food and Non-Preferred Food to Arbitrary Symbols on Implicit Relational Tasks
Abstract
The Mixed-Trial Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (MT-IRAP) is a tool for
measuring implicit behavior (i.e., biases or beliefs the individual is unaware of or
intends to conceal from the public) among individuals. The MT-IRAP is a modified
version of the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) and was designed
to address limitations inherent to the IRAP’s design. The MT-IRAP was tested with
adult participants across a series of five studies. Throughout each study, the MTIRAP
assessed implicit behavior toward high-preferred foods, non-preferred foods,
and arbitrary symbols. The experimenter administered the MT-IRAP before and
after participant completion of a task designed to train relations between highpreferred
foods or non-preferred foods and the arbitrary symbols. The utility of
the MT-IRAP was supported, as MT-IRAP effects were consistently found for the
groups of high-preferred and non-preferred foods during the pre-intervention
administrations. Also, indications of food preference, as indicated by the MTIRAP,
consistently matched the participants’ self-reported food preferences. Results suggested that relational training influenced MT-IRAP results for the
arbitrary symbols with some participants, as pre- and post-intervention
comparisons of MT-IRAP results for the symbols indicated response pattern shifts
that aligned with the trained high preferred and non-preferred food with
approximately half of the participants throughout the series of studies.
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