Emotion & Cognition Flashcards
Facial expression: smile
- Universal; communicates happiness
3 different kinds of smiles
Pan Am
Duchenne
Coy smile
Pan Am smile
Curtesy smile
Duchenne smile
Real smile
Coy smile
Appeasement smile, smile of stress or embarrassment
T or F: Expressing different facial expression regulates sensory processing
True; Susskind et al. 2008
- Fear: sensory acquisition increased (larger visual field, increased nasal volume and air velocity)
- Disgust: sensory acquisition decreased
Emotional contagion
Perceiving different facial expression leads to corresponding emotions
Fear: pre-potent stimuli
Naturally elicit fear
Fear snake example
Never seen but avoidance behavior
Attentional blink
Serves as a way to help the brain ignore distractions and focus on processing the first target
T or F: emotion drives attention
True
- fear irrelevant target
Flashbulb memory
memories of learning something so shocking that it creates a strong and seemingly very accurate memory of learning about the event–but not the event itself.
- 9/11
- bridge collapse
Flashbulb memory: Neisser & Harsh
Challenger explosion - 2.5 year later memories were inaccurate but subjects were highly confident
- Emotion enhances subjective sense of remembering, even though it may not affect the accuracy of the memory
Amygdala damage
- Does not show reduced attentional blink for emotional stimuli
- Rate of forgetting is similar for neutral and emotional stimuli
- Cannot acquire conditioned fear response (no skin conduction response despite normal awareness of the association)
SP patient: Amygdala damage
- Impaired at identifying facial emotion but not at generating facial expressions
- Amygdala patient SP didn’t recognize above as fearful emotions - the right is her own face
- She’s able to generate faces of different emotions upon instruction (“she me the facial expression of fear, anger, etc.”)
- Can’t recognize her own emotion when seeing the images
