Adaptação em língua portuguesa do Functional Acquistion Speed Test (FAST) para estudar estereótipo de gênero no Brasil

Abstract

We can measure attitudes explicitly, using self-report instruments, and implicitly, through tasks in which participant’s performance in tests of relations between stimuli is measured. The Functional Acquisition Speed Test (FAST) has been used to access implicit measures of gender stereotypes through a procedure that consists comparing the participant's learning curves in two blocks of trials: a block in which a response (clicking on the same key) is reinforced in the presence of any stimulus from a set of stimuli considered to be consistent (eg, the “Z” key for “male” and male traits such as “dominant” and “M” for “woman” and traits considered feminine, as “sensitive”); and another block in which a response is reinforced in the presence of stimuli belonging to a set considered inconsistent (eg, “Z” for “man” and “sensitive” and “M” for “woman” and “dominant”). Experiment 1 aimed to select Portuguese words suitable for use in FAST with Brazilian population, seeking both adjectives that flex in gender and neutral adjectives. In Experiment 2 we evaluated difference in participant’s performance in FAST with the words chosen in Experiment 1 in four different conditions that assessed two different forms of presentation for words that flexed in gender. We also evaluated decrease in the maximum response time (from 3s to 1.5s) influence. Words in Condition 1 was gender-neutral and 3s maximal response time. In Condition 2, we used words that flex in gender, with an undeline in place last word’s letter and 3s of maximum response time. In Condition 3, we used neutral words in gender and 1.5s of maximal response time. In Condition 4, we used words that flexed in gender, presenting them inside boxes and keeping the last one empty, giving a maximum response time of 1.5s. Results showed significant difference only between conditions 1 and 2, and between conditions 1 + 3 and 2 + 4, analyzed together. Data indicates there is no difference between the use of 3s or 1,5s as the maximum response time in the neutral words. We presented additional discussion on variables of interest and other experimental controls