Conition And Emotion

Question 1

which refers
to the extent to which experimental findings are applicable in the real world.

Answer 1

ecological validity

Question 2

Young et al used this technique to create
angry or sad mood states

Answer 2

manipulate

Question 3

Griskevicius et al. (2010) told their
participants to write about a situation ‘when another person really
took care
of you and made you feel better’ to create feelings of …..

Answer 3

attachment love.

Question 4

Easterbrook was
arguing that ……….
creates what is popularly known as
‘tunnel vision’ (excessive focusing of attention)

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anxiety or arousal

Question 5

The notion that high levels of arousal or anxiety cause a narrowing of attention.

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Easterbrook’s hypothesis.

Question 6

they found that sadness was
associated with

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attentional broadening

Question 7

The finding that eyewitnesses pay so much attention to some crucial aspect of the situation (e.g. a weapon) that they ignore other details.

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Weapon focus

Question 8

This suggests that
individuals in a positive mood state show a

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broadening of attention

Question 9

when we are in a good mood, we naturally find ourselves
recalling happy personal memories This is called ……

Answer 9

mood-congruent memory

Question 10

learning and retrieval are better when the learner’s (or rememberer’s) mood state is the same as (or congruent with) the affective value of the to-be remembered material.

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Mood-congruent memory

Question 11

memory performance is better when the individual’s mood state is the same at learning and retrieval than when it differs.

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Mood-state- dependent memory

Question 12

Apparently vivid detailed memories of dramatic and significant events (e.g9/11).

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Flashbulb memories

Question 13

Motivated forgetting of traumatic or other very threatening events (e.g. childhood abuse).

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Repression

Question 14

Childhood traumatic or threatening memories that are remembered many years after the relevant events or experiences.

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Recovered memories

Question 15

disease in which the amygdala and adjacent areas are destroyed; it leads to the impairment of emotional processing and memory for emotional material.

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Urbach-Wiethe disease

Question 16

form of statistical analysis based on combining all the findings in a specific area to obtain an overall picture

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Meta-analysis

Question 17

Involves making a selection from various options, often in the absence of full information

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Decision making

Question 18

This involves an assessment of the likelihood of event occurring on the basis of incomplete information it often from the initial process in decision making

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Judgement

Question 19

impairs decision making

Answer 19

Anxiety

Question 20

which is a limitedcapacity, attention-like component of the working memory system

Answer 20

central executive

Question 21

one hypothesis as to why emotional
states impair reasoning is

Answer 21

because they deplete the resources of the central executive

Question 22

positive mood state and sadness or depression

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impaired the functioning of the central executive

Question 23

Why is reasoning performance impaired by various negative and positive emotional states?

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depletes central executive resources

Question 24

Moral dilemmas is known as

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the dual-process theory

Question 25

……………was one of the first to examine thought
processes, such as the making of judgements, using specially trained
adult human participants and the classical introspective report as
his research methodology

Answer 25

Oswald Külpe

Question 26

Köhler (1925) used the term…….. to refer to the ape’s discovery.

Answer 26

insight

Question 27

Spoken form of a language: a way of conveying linguistic information with the human voice.

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Speech

Question 28

Grammatical rules of a language. These rules govern the ways that words can be combined (and declined). Syntax can be independent of meaning: a sentence can be syntactically correct but meaningless (e.g. ‘colourless green dreams sleep furiously’).

Answer 28

Syntax

Question 29

The smallest unit of speech which contributes to its linguistic meaning: changing a..,,,,,, will change the meaning of a word.

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Phoneme