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Interim Exam 4 > Cognition and Emotions Terms > Flashcards

Cognition and Emotions Terms Flashcards

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What is a skin conductance response?

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Changes in the skins ability to conduct electricity in the presence of an emotion eliciting stimulus

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Define emotion

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Number of mental states including anger, joy and disgust

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What part of the brain is linked with disgust?

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The insula

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What part of the brain is linked with sadness?

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Anterior cingulate cortex

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What part of the brain is linked with anger?

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Orbitofrontal cortex

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What is the default network

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A network of brain regions that is active when a person is not focused on their external environment

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What is the salience network

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Involved in monitoring the external and internal environments to allow detection of salient stimuli

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What are display rules?

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Social conventions governing how, when and with whom emotions may be expressed

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What is meant by appraisal?

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The ways in which people interpret or explain themselves the meaning of events

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What is the autonomic nervous system?

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Part of the peripheral nervous system and regulates internal organs

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What is the central nervous system

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Consists of the brain and spinal cord

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What is the basis of the James-Lange theory of emotion?

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The experience of an emotion follows the physiological changes associated with that state

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What is the facial feedback hypothesis

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Feedback from the facial muscles can influence the emotional state

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What is meant by the mere exposure effect?

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The tendency for people to develop a preference for a stimulus with repeated exposure to it

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What are appraisal theories

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Include the assertion that emotions result from our interpretations of, or reaction to, events.

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What is meant by multi-level theories by leDoux?

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multi-level theories of emotion propose that both pre attentive and conscious cognitive processes are involved in emotion

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What is attentional bias

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The tendency for emotional stimuli to capture or draw attention

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What is self monitoring concerned with?

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The extent to which a person is concerned with self presentation and how others perceive them

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What is meant by tunnel memory?

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The enhancement of memory of central details with reduced memory for peripheral details

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What is mood congruency?

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The tendency to recall events consistent with current mood state

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What are network models of memory?

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Treat memories as items related in a network which can affect each other through activation

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What is meant by state-dependent memory?

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The facilitation of memory when the mental or physiological state t encoding and retrieval matches

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What is meant by thought congruity?

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The tendency for thoughts and judgements to be consistent with mood state

Interim Exam 4 (12 decks)

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