Castiel Is a Psychologist Who Is Interested in Seeing How

question 8

Multiple Choice

Castiel is a psychologist who is interested in seeing how autonomic nervous system responses are related to subjective feelings of fear. Half the participants in Castiel's experiment watch a 10-minute graphic and violent video and the other half watch a 10-minute video of a baby kitten. While the participants are watching the video, Castiel gathers measurements of their skin conductance. After they finish watching the video the participants answer a questionnaire about their level of fear after watching the video as well as how they generally react to horror movies.
-Castiel measured the participants' general violent tendencies in an attempt to control for ________.

• A)participants' reactivity levels
• B)extraneous variables
• C)confounding variables
• D)response bias

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