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.
Answer: B
You might also like to view...
Mike is an impulsive and immature first-grade child. He seems to lack control and is not motivated to engage in class activities. His teacher, Mr. Alexander, suggests that instead of a management plan for Mike, perhaps some parenting classes could be of benefit. Based upon his suggestion, what can we infer about Mr. Alexander's perception of the parenting style of Mike's parents?
a. He feels they are uninvolved. b. He feels they are authoritarian. c. He feels they are permissive. d. He feels they are authoritative.
When would precorrecting be used in a sounding out format?
What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following is a classroom assessment technique?
A. chain notes B. rubric C. running records D. task analysis
The concept and calculation of ‘variance’ is primarily concerned with ______.
a. differences b. central tendency c. samples and populations d. theoretical distributions