Bargh and Chartand (1999) Subliminally Presented a Group of College

question 276

Multiple Choice

Bargh and Chartand (1999) subliminally presented a group of college students with words that were either positive (e.g., friend, music, clown) or negative (e.g., cancer, worm, Monday) . Their study found that

• A)only the subliminally presented negative words produced a change in mood
• B)only the subliminally presented positive words produced a change in mood
• C)subliminally presented words created moods similar to the valence of the words (e.g., negative words created sadder moods and positive words created happier moods)
• D)subliminally presented words created the opposite mood (e.g., negative words created happier moods)

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Definitions:

Circus Trainer

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Stimulus Discrimination

The learned ability to differentiate between two similar stimuli based on the different outcomes associated with each.

Response Generalisation

The process by which a subject exhibits learned responses not only to the original stimulus but also to similar stimuli.

Stimulus Discrimination

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