Cognitive, Social and Psychological Determinants of Emotional State
A Study That Test the Two-Factor Theory of Emotion
Lamin Williams
Riverwood International High School
Introduction
The name of this article is called, “Cognitive, Social and Psychological Determinants of Emotional State.” In 1962, Schachter and Singer put their two-factor theory of emotion to the test. Schachter and Singer believed that physical arousal played a huge role in emotions. They came up with one of the earliest cognitive theories of emotion. In the experiment, they provide three main hypotheses, which were derived from the aim of the study. The first one asks, if a person experiences a state of arousal for which they have no immediate
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This was an experiment with many manipulated variables.There were two independent variables are the information given to the subjects about the injection they were given and the situation they had to experience. The Dependent variable is the emotional arousals of the participant. From the results, the epinephrine had the desired effect of raising heart rate and subject ratings of tremors and palpitations. Also, the misinformed people didn 't experience any sympathetic symptoms of headaches or itchiness. In the euphoria condition, it was clear that the subjects were drawn more to the stooge 's mood and consequently more euphoric when they had no explanation of their own body’s state. Based on behavior observations they found the same results. In the anger condition, the self-report data was suspicious because the students didn 't want to express anger to the experimenter about participating in the test. But based on behavior scores, people who were ignorant were a lot angrier than the informed and placebo. From the results, it shows that people will assign an emotion to a physiological change based on the available emotions in the social situation.
Analysis
In this experiment, Schachter and Singer were able to manipulate the amount of control they had. An example of this is how they were able to assign different participants to the different conditions. They were able to
At times the other participant would plead for the experiment to stop. The effect the administrator had on each subject was tremendous. Among many others, some factors that affected the participant’s obedience included the appearance of the instructor, directions provided, and the setting of the experiment at a prestigious university. The instructor made the participants believe that they were obligated to continue administering shocks through his words, appearance and tone of voice.
The study was set up as a "blind experiment" to capture if and when a person will stop inflicting pain on another as they are explicitly commanded to continue. The participants of this experiment included two willing individuals: a teacher and a learner. The teacher being the real subject and the learner is merely an actor. Both were told that they would be involved in a study that tests the effects of punishment on
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The subjects of the experiment believed that they were taking part in a study on the relationship of learning and punishment. The subject would sit in a room and ask questions to an actor in another room, who was supposed to be another subject. In front of the questioner was a box that had a series of buttons labeled from 15 volts to 450 volts. The subject was told to shock the person every time they answered incorrectly, increasing the voltage each time. As the shocks got worse, the actor would make noise, bang on the wall, yell for help, etc. but the researcher would tell the subject to keep going. Milgrim found, contrary to many psychologists predictions, that sixty-five percent of the subjects delivered the shocks all the way up to 450 volts (Slater).
The informed consent were not obtained for the participants to engage in the experiment at their own free will, instead they were deceived and made to belief that they were benefitting, such experiment which has become widely known
Three main theories of emotion are James-Lange theory, Cannon-Bard Theory, and Schachter-Singer
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This obedience occurred even though the learner had mention at first before the experiment that he has a heart problem and demanded to be released during the experiment (Feldman, 2013). Most of the participants continued sending the shocks even though the learner was screaming and shouting. During the experiment many of the participants were uncomfortable and angry at the experimenter and yet they still continued following instructions until the end of the experiment (Cherry, n.d.). These participants had believed that the experimenter would be held responsible for any potential after effects of the experiment and not them therefore continued sending shocks to the learner in the experiment (Feldman, 2013).
The participants would think that the drug was affecting them to reveal the different of the emotions by being happy, angry, and sad; depending on the social in the environment. “Oh, yeah, that’s just the drug affecting me.” (Self-Justification, 178) Since the participants thought the drug was affecting to them by the investigators told them that there are a few of the effects of an epinephrine which it made them being imagine that the drug is actually affecting to them by showing the emotions. Self- Justification is the act or an instance of making excuse for oneself or others, for example, an experiment is similar for the destruction or trauma events that have happened in the place, the people who doesn't get hurt by the major earthquake in Japan, while they are wandering around the destroyed buildings and they could hear the screaming from people who have been hurt or trapped in under of the collapsed buildings. They weren't so sure if they should help them or not because they don't want to get hurt if they decided to help and they are making the excuses out of "imagining" to getting hurt by helping the people who are trapped in the
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