BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
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They all took a psychology course and were offered extra credit
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They were volunteers from the Chicago Area
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They were graduated students self selected from the Stanford university
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They were all participating in other study in the same university
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Detailed explanation-1: -What was the sampling technique of the Schachter and Singer study? Convenience sampling. What was the procedure of the Schachter and Singer study? The participants were told that they were going to be injected with a new vitamin, Suproxin, when really they were injected with adrenaline.
Detailed explanation-2: -Schachter and Singer’s Experiment A group of 184 male participants was injected with epinephrine, a hormone that produces arousal including increased heartbeat, trembling, and rapid breathing. All of the participants were told that they were being injected with a new drug to test their eyesight.
Detailed explanation-3: -Overall, Schachter and Singer’s (1962) study demonstrated that people can experience misattribution of arousal because their cognitive appraisals identified the wrong eliciting event (it’s the confederate, not the shot, that is causing my arousal!).
Detailed explanation-4: -the theory that experiencing and identifying emotional states are functions of both physiological arousal and cognitive interpretations of the physical state. Also called attribution of emotion; cognitive arousal theory of emotion; Schachter theory; two-factor theory of emotion.