Castiel Is a Psychologist Who Is Interested in Seeing How

question 40

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.
-In Castiel's experiment what is the independent variable

• A)The participants' skin conductance.
• B)The video the participants watched.
• C)The participants' general attitude towards horror movies.
• D)The participants' sex.

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