A Psychologist Was Interested in Gauging the Success of a Mood

question 8

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 cat food, (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. What analysis should be done to see if the mood inductions had an effect on responses to these 9 items. part of the output is shown below. Which statement best sums up this part of the output?

• A) There were significant differences between the mood induction conditions on all items.
• B) There were significant differences between the mood induction conditions on two items: 'I would never eat catfood' and 'Bodily fluids are nasty'.
• C) There were significant differences between the mood induction conditions on four items: 'I would never eat catfood', 'I could never touch a dead body', 'I feel fed up' and 'Bodily fluids are nasty'.
• D) The mood induction had no effect on responses to the nine items.

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Definitions:

Classical Conditioning

A learning process in psychology where two stimuli are repeatedly paired together until an individual associates them with each other, leading to a change in behavior.

CS

An abbreviation often used in psychology and neuroscience for "Conditioned Stimulus," a component of classical conditioning.

US

In the context of classical conditioning, it stands for the Unconditioned Stimulus, which automatically triggers a response without any learning needed.

Conditioned Stimulus

A formerly neutral cue that, after being linked with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to evoke a conditioned response over time.