AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Participants who were injected with adrenalin were then put into one of the three conditions: informed, misinformed or ignorant. The fourth condition consisted of those participants who had received the placebo injection.

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: -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: -For example, if you were to see a venomous snake in your backyard, the Schachter–Singer theory argues that the snake would elicit sympathetic nervous system activation (physiological arousal) that would be cognitively labeled as fear (cognition) based on the context.