Brenna Claims That She Does Have a Negative Attitude Toward

question 29

Multiple Choice

Brenna claims that she does have a negative attitude toward overweight people. She participates in a study in which she views photos of fat and thin women on a computer screen and then determines whether or not letter strings spell real words. Based on your text's discussion, which of the following statements describes Brenna's likely performance in this task?

• A) Brenna will respond equally rapidly to positive and negative words after viewing photos of fat women.
• B) Brenna will be slower to respond to positive than to negative words after viewing photos of fat women.
• C) Brenna will be faster to respond to positive than to negative words after viewing photos of fat women.
• D) Brenna will respond more rapidly to positive words after viewing photos of thin women than after viewing photos of fat women.

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Definitions:

Orienting System

A cognitive mechanism that directs attention towards novel or significant stimuli in one's environment.

Still-Face Paradigm

A research technique for assessing infant coping strategies. The infant is seated facing the mother who is instructed to interact in normally pleasant and playful ways at first and then is asked to change her behavior and to be completely unresponsive or withdrawn.

Negative Affect System

A psychological concept referring to the mechanism involved in experiencing and processing negative emotions and mood states, such as sadness, anger, and fear.