Emotion 6

Question 1

Emotion and iconic memory

Answer 1

Emotional stimuli capture attention and improve short-term memory.
Emotion slows decay of iconic memory, less performance drop with longer cue delay for threatening stimuli.

Question 2

Emotional attentional blink

Answer 2

Smaller attentional blink when second item is a negative word.
No emotional boost with bilateral amygdala damage

Question 3

Weapon focus effect

Answer 3

Worse memory for perpetrator or circumstances of a crime in scenario’s involving weapons. Mostly studies in laboratories.
Partially reflects unexpectedness of the weapon. Partially reflects emotion that narrows attention.

Question 4

Amygdala damage and fearful face processing

Answer 4

Patients with hippocampus damage show normal fusiform cortex emotional enhancement to fearful vs neutral faces but patients with amygdala damage don’t show emotional enhancement

Question 5

Emotion persistence

Answer 5

Bilateral hippocampus patients who have had emotion induced with movies show emotion levels way beyond their memory for the movie clips.

Question 6

Context conditioning

Answer 6

Amygdala is the emotional aspect of memory.
Hippocampus records the details about when and where fear conditioning occurred.

Question 7

Extinction learning

Answer 7

Requires new safety learning.
Frequent reemergence of fear respons.
Context: restricion of extinction to specific context of extinction learning.

Question 8

Consolidation and stress

Answer 8

Stimulants can improve memory consolidation.
Enhanced by drugs released during stress (sympathetic NS).
Impaired by those that block beta-adrenergic receptors and by protein synthesis inhibitors, indicating that consolidation requires new protein synthesis.

Question 9

Spatial learning and drugs

Answer 9

Spatial learning in water maze improved by amphetamine injection in either hippocampus or amygdala

Question 10

Stress-induces retrieval deficit

Answer 10

Stress exposure or glucocorticoids injected shortly before testing can impair memory retention.
It can also impair memory retrieval if injected shortly before training.
Stress also impairs recall specifically for declarative memory.

Question 11

Effects of chronic stress

Answer 11

Extended periods of stress affect hippocampus structure and impairs memory.