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:

Iliacus

A muscle located in the pelvis, part of the iliopsoas group, important for flexing the hip and stabilizing the lower body.

Sartorius

The sartorius is a long, thin, superficial muscle that runs down the length of the thigh in the human body, known for being the longest muscle.

Thorax Muscle

Refers to the muscles located in the chest region that assist with the breathing process and support upper body movements.

Intercostal

Pertaining to the muscles and nerves situated between the ribs, involved in the mechanics of breathing.