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Emotion and cognition Flashcards

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Where is emotion processed?

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The limbic system.

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Which cortex is apart of the emotional system?

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Insular cortex.

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What is the theory of the relationship between face and morals?

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It is believed that when someone has an unattractive face we believe that they have immorality.

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What two areas are involved in experiencing and recognising disgust?

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Basal ganglia and insular cortex.

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What emotions are not captured in Ekman’s six basic emotions?

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Guilt and love and more complex emotions.

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What is the cognitive definition of arousal?

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Overall term for bodily changes that occur in emotions in response to a stimulus such as heart rate, sweating and hormone release. The intensity of the emotional reaction may be assessed by the strength of these responses.

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What is the circumplex model?

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A circular model on an axis that measures emotions into categories of arousal and valence, subjective model.

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What are approach emotions?

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Evoke the desire to approach the stimulus, e.g. happiness

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What are withdrawal emotions?

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Evoke the desire to withdraw and avoid from stimulus e.g. disgust.

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What is mood induction?

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A way of manipulating emotions before an experiment.

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What is the difference between mood and emotion?

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Mood is more stable and diffuse affective state than emotion, not necessary linked to a specific event as it is a general state.

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What is evocative stimuli?

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Stimuli that elicit emotional responses e.g. pictures of emotional scenes. Or rewards or punishments e.g. money is offered.

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When is evocative stimuli used purposely?

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Before experiments in order to manipulate emotion.

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What are direct methods of measuring emotions?

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Self report methods e.g. questionnaires. Relies on introspection.

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What are indirect methods of measuring emtions?

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Behaviour observations, pupil dilation, heart rate, response time, facial movements (EMG) and respiratory rate.

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How do schemas affect emotion?

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Schemas are. linked with emotions and therefore when a new experience is undergone schemas can be used to generate the appropriate emotion associated.

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What is emotional classical conditioning?

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The learnt association between a neutral event and an emotional event.

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What is an example of emotional classical conditioning?

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Pairing places with emotions e.g. getting spiked in a club and not going back even thought it was the person not the club. Or positively smells reminding and bringing joyful emotional due to festive season.

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What is autonomic coditioning?

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Can be expressed through bodily responses such as an arousal response.

20
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What is evaluative conditioning?

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It is expressed through an attitude or words.

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What is aversive conditioning?

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Autonomic conditioning learnt specifically for fear response.

22
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What does the amygdala do in aversive conditioning?

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Mediates learning that is associated with fear or stimulus valence.

23
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What is double dissociation?

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Amygdala is involved in anticipation of negative stimuli whereas the hippocampus holds memory what association that is (awareness).

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What is the effect of evaluative conditioning?

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If we have a positive experience or effect due to a neutral stimulus we become more fond of it.

25
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What is the definition of valence?

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Whether someone tis good or bad, whether the stimuli is positive or negative.

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What is extinction?

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Reversing conditioning.

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How does extinction work?

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If the conditioned stimulus is presented repeatedly without the negative experience.

28
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What is the worst thing to do for a negative association/fear?

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Avoidance.

29
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What is instrumental/operant conditioning?

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Learning by reinforcement, positive or negative.

30
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What role does dopamine play in conditioning?

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Dopamine is linked to rewards in all stimuli, based on amounts released can trigger addiction but also have a positive effect depending on the stimuli.

31
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Where are preferences and rewards stored in the brain?

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Prefrontal cortex.

32
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How does vicarious reinforcement work?

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Without an experience we can experience an amygdala response and adapt from things we haven’t and are unlikely to experience due to tv or the media.

33
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What are mirror neurons?

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Fire when we do a task or we observe another doing the same thing, we also mirror emotion and pain of others.

34
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How does emotion enhance memory?

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through flashbulb memory, events with more emotion attached is more robust and more likely to be remembered.

35
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What two things can consolidate memories more?

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Stress to a certain level and high arousal level.

36
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How does stress affect memory?

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It increases memory to an optimum point however past that point it drastically decreases. But it does increase emotional memory.

37
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How does emotion effect attention?

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Emotion increases the salience of the stimuli and captures the attention at a higher level.

38
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What is a real life example of emotion and attention?

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Eye witness testimony can either be increased when there is an emotional aspect e.g. weapon or decreased when the stimulus is not emotional e.g. perpetrators face.

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What is the affective primacy hypothesis?

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Proposes that emotional stimuli are processed relatively automatically, making fewer demands on limited cognitive resources than other types of stimulus.

40
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What is affective psychology?

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Emotions and preferences.

41
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What is appraisals?

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Reasons for emotions.

42
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What is involved in the limbic system?

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Hypothalamus, thalamus and amygdala.

43
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What did Darwin propose in “On the Origin of Species”?

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That there are a limited number of basic universal emotions.

44
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What are Ekman’s 6 basic emotions?

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Anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise.

45
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How is each emotion characterised?

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A unique subset of facial muscle movements and facial expression.

46
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Why is it thought that the 6 basic emotions are innate?

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Because babies produce the facial expression and as do people who have been completely blind since birth.

47
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What does amygdala damage cause?

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People to struggle to perceive ad recognise fear in others and mediate valence.

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