AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Schachter and Singer found that participants uninformed about the injection’s true side effects felt either happier or angrier compared to informed participants. Since participants didn’t know the injection would affect their physiological arousal, they interpreted such reactions based on their confederate’s mood.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Schachter-Singer theory explains that emotion is formed from physiological arousal and a cognitive label. This theory also explains that a person’s emotional response is formed from an interpretation of their immediate environment.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Schachter-Singer Theory, also known as the Two-Factor theory of emotion, states that 2 factors are needed to experience emotion. First, environmental stimuli elicits a physiological response. Second, we cognitively appraise this physiological activity, and try to give it the correct label.

Detailed explanation-4: -The dependent variable was the reaction the participants exerted to the actions of the stooge which was recorded by observers through a one-way mirror, as well as the results from the self-report on their mood that they had to complete at the end of the experiment.