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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.
- The student first feels anxiety, which then causes the sympathetic nervous system to increase heart rate.
- The student experiences physiological arousal and then interprets that arousal based on the examination context.
- The physiological arousal is directly perceived as anxiety without a cognitive step.
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