Chapter 15 Cognition and emotion

Question 1

Emotion regulation

Answer 1

the management and control of emotional states by various processes (e.g. attentional; appraisal)

Question 2

Attentional counter-regulation

Answer 2

a coping strategy in which attentional processes are used so as to minimise emotional states (whether positive or negative)

Question 3

reappraisal

Answer 3

involves reinterpreting the meaning of stimulus to change one´s emotional response to it

Question 4

Affective blindsight

Answer 4

the ability to discriminate between emotionally stimuli in the absence of conscious perception of these stimuli; found in patients with lesions to the primary visual cortex

Question 5

mood-state-dependent memory

Answer 5

the finding that memory is better when the mood state at retrieval is the same as that at learning than when the two moods differ

Question 6

mood congruity

Answer 6

the finding that learning and retrieval of emotional material is better when there is agreement between the learne´s og rememberer´s mood state and the affective value of the material

Question 7

attentional bias

Answer 7

selective allocation of attention to threat-related stimuli when presented simultaneously with neutral stimuli

Question 8

interpretive bias

Answer 8

tendency when presented with ambigous stimuli or situations to interpret them in a relatively threatening way

Question 9

explicit memory bias

Answer 9

the retrieval of relatively more negative or unpleasant information than positive or neutral information on a test of explicit memory

Question 10

implicit memory bias

Answer 10

relatively better memory performance for negative than for neutral or positive info on a test of implicit theory