Stanley Schachter and Jerome Singer's (1962)experiment in Which Participants Were

question 37

Multiple Choice

Stanley Schachter and Jerome 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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Definitions:

First-order Response

An immediate reaction or reply to a stimulus or situation without involving deeper processing or analysis.

Object Permanence

The understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen, heard, or touched.

Conservation

the understanding that certain properties of physical objects, such as volume or mass, remain the same despite changes in outward appearance.

Verbal Memory

The ability to remember and recall words, phrases, and narratives, an important aspect of human memory functioning.