A Network Television Station Has Agreed to Produce a New

Multiple Choice

A network television station has agreed to produce a new reality show. The goal is to make it so disgusting that viewers can't wait for more. When they show the first few episodes to a test audience, they find that people have already seen a lot of disgusting things in reality shows and movies, so they don't react as strongly as the producers had hoped. Is there anything they can do to manipulate viewers' experience of the show without changing the actual footage?

A) No; physiological arousal to stimuli is objective, not subjective.
B) Yes; research shows that arousal can be manipulated by appraisal.
C) Yes; different sound tracks can affect one's experience of video.
D) B and C only