Canadian Researchers Thompson, Schellenberg, and Husain Conducted an Experiment in Which

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Canadian researchers Thompson, Schellenberg, and Husain conducted an experiment in which they assigned university students to either a group that listened to a Mozart Sonata (happy music) or a group that listened to an Albinoni Adagio (sad music) . Thompson et al. concluded that what previous researchers had called the "Mozart effect" was really an artifact of the participants' arousal and positive mood. Thompson et al. were claiming that:

A) arousal and positive mood were confounds of the "Mozart effect."
B) the Mozart Sonata acted as a placebo in their experiment.
C) the "Mozart effect" resulted from an experimenter expectancy effect.
D) listening to the Mozart Sonata created demand characteristics for the participants.