AP PSYCHOLOGY

MOTIVATION EMOTION AND STRESS

MOTIVATION AND EMOTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What did the Schachter-Singer experiment illustrate?
A
Perception and arousal interact to create a particular emotion.
B
People’s perception of a specific situation has little to do with their emotional reaction to the situation.
C
People respond more strongly to psychological needs than to physical needs.
D
People feel nervous and have physiological responses when they lie.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -According to this theory, a person feels an emotion like fear at the same time that they have a bodily response in line with fear. In contrast to these theories, the Schachter-Singer theory proposes that emotional experiences are brought about by both physiological arousal and cognition.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-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 was created by researchers Stanley Schachter and Jerome E. Singer. According to the theory, when an emotion is felt, a physiological arousal occurs and the person uses the immediate environment to search for emotional cues to label the physiological arousal.

Detailed explanation-5: -According to the Schacter–Singer theory, emotion results from the interaction between two factors: physiological arousal and cognition. More specifically, this theory claims that physiological arousal is cognitively interpreted within the context of each situation, which ultimately produces the emotional experience.

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