Stanley Schachter's (1964) two-factor theory of emotion is both a biological and a social theory of emotion. Explain
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The two-factor theory is a two-stage model that explains how we make attributions about our internal experience. First we must experience arousal. Second, if we are not sure about the source of the arousal, we seek an appropriate explanation to help us label what we're feeling. Once we're aroused and seek an appropriate label, we often look to the external environment, including other people, to decide what we're feeling. For example, some participants in Stanley Schachter and Jerome Singer's (1962) experiment had no explanation for why they were feeling aroused, and looked to an experimental confederate to figure out how they were feeling. When the confederate acted silly and happy, they labeled their arousal as a positive emotion; when he acted angry, they labeled their arousal as a negative emotion.
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a. True b. False
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