A Participant Is Unconsciously Primed with a Smiling Face

question 27

Multiple Choice

A participant is unconsciously primed with a smiling face. The experiment comes back into the room and exclaims, "Hey!" with an ambiguous tone. The participant evaluates it as a friendly exclamation. This is best described as an example of which of the following?

• A) Assimilation effect
• B) Contrast effect
• C) Stimulus ambiguity
• D) Self-protective motivations

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Definitions:

T-Test

A statistical hypothesis test used to compare the mean values of a group under two different conditions.

Sampled Population

The subset of individuals or items selected from the entire population for the purpose of statistical analysis.

Population Mean

The average value of all the members of a population.

P-Value

The probability of observing results at least as extreme as those in a data set, given that the null hypothesis is true.