Castiel is a psychologist who is interested in seeing how autonomic nervous system responses are related to subjective feelings of fear. Half the participants in Castiel's experiment watch a 10-minute graphic and violent video and the other half watch a 10-minute video of a baby kitten. While the participants are watching the video, Castiel gathers measurements of their skin conductance. After they finish watching the video the participants answer a questionnaire about their level of fear after watching the video as well as how they generally react to horror movies.
-Castiel's hypothesis in the experiment is: "If participants watch the _____ video their skin conductance will be ______ than those watching the other video and this will be _____ correlated with their subjective feelings of fear"

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Castiel's hypothesis suggests that watching the violent video will increase the participants' skin conductance compared to watching the kitten video. This is because violent content may trigger a fear response in the participants, leading to a higher physiological arousal (as measured by skin conductance). The hypothesis also suggests that there will be a positive correlation between skin conductance and subjective feelings of fear - meaning that participants who show a stronger physiological response to the video will also report feeling more fearful. Therefore, the best choice is B - violent, higher, positively.

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