BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
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Small Sample-Not representative
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-sample only had right handed healthy females, results cannot be generalized to anyone else, reducing the validity
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The researchers injected adrenaline into the participants which represents an ethical issue
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The study has many ethically problematic concerns. Deception, by not telling participants what truly would be injected in their bodies, as well as lying to them about its effects. The study is gender, and age bias, only geared toward college-aged male students.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Schachter and Singer experiment, published in 1962, is one of the famous and controversial in the history of psychology. Some test subjects were secretly injected with adrenaline, giving them a sudden, unexplained surge of arousal. Subjects experienced this surge differently depending on context.
Detailed explanation-3: -What were the results of the Schachter and Singer study? In the euphoric situation, adrenaline ignorant and misinformed participants reported higher levels of happiness than those that were informed.
Detailed explanation-4: -For example, imagine that you’re running late to see a comedy show, so you end up jogging to get there. The Schachter-Singer theory would say that your sympathetic nervous system is already activated by running, so you would feel subsequent emotions (in this case, amusement) more strongly.