medium · MCAT bio-biochem
A student in a high-stakes examination observes that their heart rate is elevated and their palms are sweating.
According to the Schachter–Singer (two-factor) theory of emotion, how does the student arrive at the feeling of 'anxiety'?
- The brain generates the feeling of anxiety and the physiological response simultaneously and independently
- The student first consciously feels anxious, and that feeling then causes the sympathetic nervous system to react
- The student experiences physiological arousal and then interprets that arousal based on the examination context.
- The physiological arousal itself is directly and automatically perceived as anxiety, without any cognitive labeling step
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