The Textbook Describes a Cross-Cultural Experiment in Which the Wrists

question 101

Multiple Choice

The textbook describes a cross-cultural experiment in which the wrists of Chinese,Japanese,and American infants were grasped and held immobile to elicit anger responses.To elicit fear responses,the infants were presented with a loud disembodied toy gorilla head whose eyes lit up.What did this study reveal?

• A)the infants from all three countries produced similar behavioural responses.
• B)the American infants showed distress in the form of increased breathing rate but the other infants did not show distress in this way.
• C)the infants reacted with distinctly different facial expressions for fear and for anger.
• D)there were no differences in facial expressions for the infants from the three countries.

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