Imagine That You Are a Participant in the Experiment Conducted

question 207

Multiple Choice

Imagine that you are a participant in the experiment conducted by Stanley Schachter and Jerome Singer (1962) .You were injected with a vitamin compound called Suproxin and told that you might experience an increased heart rate,hand tremors,and sweaty palms.Further imagine that while completing a questionnaire,the person in the room with you begins to act angry,tears up the questionnaire,and storms from the room.You are likely to ____ because ____.

• A)ignore this situational cue; you know the source of your arousal
• B)become angry,too; situational cues have helped you label your arousal
• C)remain calm; to become angry would cause cognitive dissonance
• D)ignore the source of your arousal; the situation was so powerful

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Definitions:

Nondirectional

Pertains to hypotheses or tests that do not specify a direction of effect but instead test for any difference or association.

Type II Error

The probability of accepting a null hypothesis when it is false.

Multiple T Tests

Statistical tests used to compare the means of two groups on several different dependent variables.

Analysis Of Variance

A statistical method known as ANOVA, used to determine the existence of statistically significant differences between the means of three or more independent groups.