PSYC23H3 Final: C23 exam questions.docx
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Question #1: explain the mood congruency effect and explain the experiment. The mood congruency effect is a hypothesis that explains how when people feel a certain way, the whole world looks as if they are feeling that exact same emotion. For example, when a person feels sad, they will perceive their environment as sad. Or they might perceive the people they encounter as sad. An experiment they had for this was they presented participants emotion tapes, which are videos used to convey happy or disgust emotions. In the happy condition, they were shown pictures of faces. When these participants were shown a face, they saw multiple options to what the face was conveying. They were more open minded to what that face was portraying. In the disgust condition, they were also shown pictures of faces. When they were shown a face, they were more definitive on what that face was portraying.
