Conition And Emotion Flashcards
which refers
to the extent to which experimental findings are applicable in the real world.
ecological validity
Young et al used this technique to create
angry or sad mood states
manipulate
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 …..
attachment love.
Easterbrook was
arguing that ……….
creates what is popularly known as
‘tunnel vision’ (excessive focusing of attention)
anxiety or arousal
The notion that high levels of arousal or anxiety cause a narrowing of attention.
Easterbrook’s hypothesis.
they found that sadness was
associated with
attentional broadening
The finding that eyewitnesses pay so much attention to some crucial aspect of the situation (e.g. a weapon) that they ignore other details.
Weapon focus
This suggests that
individuals in a positive mood state show a
broadening of attention
when we are in a good mood, we naturally find ourselves
recalling happy personal memories This is called ……
mood-congruent memory
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.
Mood-congruent memory
memory performance is better when the individual’s mood state is the same at learning and retrieval than when it differs.
Mood-state- dependent memory
Apparently vivid detailed memories of dramatic and significant events (e.g9/11).
Flashbulb memories
Motivated forgetting of traumatic or other very threatening events (e.g. childhood abuse).
Repression
Childhood traumatic or threatening memories that are remembered many years after the relevant events or experiences.
Recovered memories
disease in which the amygdala and adjacent areas are destroyed; it leads to the impairment of emotional processing and memory for emotional material.
Urbach-Wiethe disease
form of statistical analysis based on combining all the findings in a specific area to obtain an overall picture
Meta-analysis
Involves making a selection from various options, often in the absence of full information
Decision making
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
Judgement
impairs decision making
Anxiety
which is a limitedcapacity, attention-like component of the working memory system
central executive
one hypothesis as to why emotional
states impair reasoning is
because they deplete the resources of the central executive
positive mood state and sadness or depression
impaired the functioning of the central executive
Why is reasoning performance impaired by various negative and positive emotional states?
depletes central executive resources
Moral dilemmas is known as
the dual-process theory
