Castiel Is a Psychologist Who Is Interested in Seeing How

question 42

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.
-Before dividing his participants into those who watched violent videos versus those who watched kitten videos,Castiel notices that the distribution of his participants' skin conductance scores appears to be normal.The distribution of these participants in terms of their skin conductance would be a ________.

• A)symmetrical distribution
• B)positively skewed distribution
• C)negatively skewed distribution
• D)a skewed distribution,but we can't tell whether it's positively or negatively skewed unless we see the graph.

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Definitions:

Kurt Lewin

A pioneering psychologist known for his work in social, organizational, and applied psychology, including the development of force field analysis and the change management model.

Change Model

A framework or approach used to understand, implement, and manage change within organizations or individuals.

Unfreezing

The first step in Lewin’s change model, in which individuals are encouraged to discard old behaviors by shaking up the equilibrium state that maintains the status quo.

Organization Development

is a systematic practice aimed at improving organizational effectiveness and employee well-being through planned interventions in the organization's processes.