Schachter and Singer's (1962) Experiment in Which Participants Were Injected

question 178

Multiple Choice

Schachter and Singer's (1962) experiment in which participants were injected with epinephrine-allegedly as part of a study of the effects of a vitamin compound on vision-is one of the most famous studies in social psychology because the experiment showed that __________.

• A) participants can become very angry and upset when research is unethical
• B) emotions can be the consequence of self-perception processes
• C) when arousal is sufficiently high, the situation makes no difference
• D) anger is easy to identify, but elation is more difficult

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