Implicit Association Tests

I took three Implicit Association Tests which were Native American, Weapons and Gender-Career. I understand that these tests are supposed to reflect our automatic thoughts but I felt that the test had more to do with the speed of answers than what you thought. Of the three tests I took, I felt that only the Gender-Career test results were close to my actual thoughts. My result for the Gender-Career test was that I had little or no association between female and male with career and family. I think that it is outdated to believe that males are only career oriented and females are family oriented. My Weapons tests results suggested that I have a strong association of black Americans with weapons compared to white Americans. I really don’t believe that those results are anywhere near my actual thoughts. The final test suggested a strong association of Native Americans with foreign locations and white Americans with American locations compared to the opposite. I thought that this test compared to the others was more a mix-up of my inability to hit the right button and taking too much time to respond. This was also the first test I took so maybe it had to do with the unfamiliarity of the format. I personally didn’t like the tests only because speed was heavily weighed. I felt like I was rushing to make sure I hit the right button fast enough which was causing errors.