In a Study Discussed in the Text, Participants Were Presented

question 70

Multiple Choice

In a study discussed in the text, participants were presented with pictures of groups of people. In some of the pictures, people had the same emotion (either all angry or all happy) while in others there was one discrepant face in the group (either one angry face in a happy group or one happy face in an angry group) . When participants were asked to determine whether there was a discrepant face in any of the photos, the researchers found that

• A)participants responded equally fast when presented with pictures containing a discrepant angry face or a discrepant happy face
• B)participants responded fastest to the angry face in the group of happy people
• C)participants responded fastest to the happy face in the group of angry people
• D)participants typically were unable to locate the discrepant happy face

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Definitions:

Conclusions Concerning Cause

Final judgments or decisions reached by reasoning, especially about why something happens or the reason for a particular effect.

Practical or Ethical Reasons

Justifications for decisions or actions based on practicality, including effectiveness and convenience, or ethical considerations, involving moral principles.

Standard Deviation

A statistical measure that quantifies the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of data values around the mean.

Descriptive Statistics

Statistical techniques used to describe and summarize the basic features of data in a study.