Castiel Is a Psychologist Who Is Interested in Seeing How

question 14

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's hypothesis in the experiment is: "If participants watch the _____ video their skin conductance will be ______ than those watching the other video and this will be _____ correlated with their subjective feelings of fear"

• A)kitten; lower; negatively
• B)violent; higher; positively
• C)violent; lower; negatively
• D)kitten; higher; positively

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Definitions:

Stimulus Generalization

The psychological process by which a response is elicited by stimuli similar to the original stimulus to which the response was conditioned.

Classical Conditioning

A conditioning method in which repeated pairings of two stimuli lead to a response that, though originally elicited by the second stimulus, is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.

Little Albert

An early experiment in psychology by John B. Watson and Rosalie Rayner that demonstrated how emotional responses, such as fear, could be conditioned in humans.

John Watson

An American psychologist who established the school of behaviorism and conducted research on animal behavior and child development.