Seeing a snake, running away from it, and then becoming frightened is the sequence of events postulated by the Cannon-Bard theory. The Cannon-Bard theory is a theory of emotion. According to this theory <span>we react to a stimulus and experience the associated emotion at the same time. In our case, the stimulus is the snake. The reaction is running from the snake and the emotion associated to the reaction is the fear.</span>
In research when a significant result is found that means it has been shown through statistical tests that one variable has had an effect on another. If it is a low effect size though it means that the effect is not large enough to prove a hypothesis.
