A Professor Conducted an Experiment in Which She Asked One

question 40

Multiple Choice

A professor conducted an experiment in which she asked one group of students to keep smiling and another group to keep frowning for a certain period of time.After five minutes,the professor discovered that the students who kept smiling reported being happier than those who kept frowning.These results most strongly support the

• A)drive reduction theory.
• B)two-factor theory of emotion.
• C)Cannon-Bard theory.
• D)facial feedback hypothesis.

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Definitions:

Flip A Coin

A basic probability experiment involving tossing a coin to observe whether the outcome is heads or tails.

Probability

The estimation of the chances of an event taking place.

Sample Proportion

A statistical measure that represents the fraction of the sample that has a particular characteristic.

Probability

An assessment of event occurrence likelihood, denoted as a fraction or decimal between 0 and 1.