The Introduction of Mood Induction Procedures Was a Major Advance

question 45

Multiple Choice

The introduction of mood induction procedures was a major advance in the scientific study of emotion and mood states because it:

• A) gave researchers a way to directly study actual states of clinical depression and other real affective states.
• B) provided a way to test participants who had actual mood disorders.
• C) allowed researchers to compare induced emotions to neutral emotional states as control conditions in which participants experience no emotion.
• D) allowed researchers to experimentally manipulate emotion and mood states and to potentially show cause and effect.

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