A Psychologist Was Interested in Gauging the Success of a Mood

question 5

Multiple Choice

A psychologist was interested in gauging the success of a mood manipulation during one of her experiments. She had three groups of participants who underwent different types of mood induction: disgust mood induction, negative mood induction and positive mood induction. After the mood induction, participants were asked to endorse nine statements relating to their mood (on a 5-point Likert scale from 1 = disagree to 5 = agree) : (1) When you're smiling the whole world smiles with you, (2) I love the pretty flowers, (3) I could never touch a dead body, (4) I would never eat catfood, (5) If someone served me monkey brain soup I would vomit, (6) I feel fed up, (7) Bodily fluids are nasty, (8) I could not drink from a glass that I'd used to catch a spider, (9) I am a worthless piece of scum.
-Part of the SPSS output is below. Which of the following statements best summarizes the output?

• A)The type of mood induction had a significant effect on responses to all of the nine items.
• B)The type of mood induction had a significant effect on responses to at least one of the nine items.
• C)The type of mood induction had a significant effect on responses to more than half at least of the nine items.
• D)The type of mood induction that a person had could be significantly determined from a linear combination of responses to the nine items.

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