Cognition and Emotions Terms Flashcards
What is a skin conductance response?
Changes in the skins ability to conduct electricity in the presence of an emotion eliciting stimulus
Define emotion
Number of mental states including anger, joy and disgust
What part of the brain is linked with disgust?
The insula
What part of the brain is linked with sadness?
Anterior cingulate cortex
What part of the brain is linked with anger?
Orbitofrontal cortex
What is the default network
A network of brain regions that is active when a person is not focused on their external environment
What is the salience network
Involved in monitoring the external and internal environments to allow detection of salient stimuli
What are display rules?
Social conventions governing how, when and with whom emotions may be expressed
What is meant by appraisal?
The ways in which people interpret or explain themselves the meaning of events
What is the autonomic nervous system?
Part of the peripheral nervous system and regulates internal organs
What is the central nervous system
Consists of the brain and spinal cord
What is the basis of the James-Lange theory of emotion?
The experience of an emotion follows the physiological changes associated with that state
What is the facial feedback hypothesis
Feedback from the facial muscles can influence the emotional state
What is meant by the mere exposure effect?
The tendency for people to develop a preference for a stimulus with repeated exposure to it
What are appraisal theories
Include the assertion that emotions result from our interpretations of, or reaction to, events.
What is meant by multi-level theories by leDoux?
multi-level theories of emotion propose that both pre attentive and conscious cognitive processes are involved in emotion
What is attentional bias
The tendency for emotional stimuli to capture or draw attention
What is self monitoring concerned with?
The extent to which a person is concerned with self presentation and how others perceive them
What is meant by tunnel memory?
The enhancement of memory of central details with reduced memory for peripheral details
What is mood congruency?
The tendency to recall events consistent with current mood state
What are network models of memory?
Treat memories as items related in a network which can affect each other through activation
What is meant by state-dependent memory?
The facilitation of memory when the mental or physiological state t encoding and retrieval matches
What is meant by thought congruity?
The tendency for thoughts and judgements to be consistent with mood state
