Emotional Influences On Learning Flashcards
Emotion
A cluster of three distinct but interrelated sets of phenomena—physiological responses, overt behaviors, and conscious feelings—produced in response to an affecting situation.
Fear response
A cluster of physiological changes, overt behaviors, and conscious reactions that accompany the emotion of fear. In the laboratory, the physiological changes and motor behaviors are often taken to imply presence of fear whether or not the accompanying conscious experience of fear can be documented.
Arousal
A collection of bodily responses (including increased blood flow to muscles, increased respiration, and depressed digestion and immune function) that prepare the body to face a threat.
Autonomic nervous system (ANS)
A collection of nerves and structures that control internal organs and glands.
Glucocorticoid
Any of a class of stress hormones (including cortisol in humans) that help to mediate the fight-or-flight response.
Conditioned emotional response
A classically conditioned response (CR), such as physiological arousal, that is produced in response to a CS that has been paired with an emotion-evoking US.
Conditioned escape
An experimental design in which animals learn to make particular responses in order to escape from or terminate an aversive stimulus.
Conditioned avoidance
An experimental design in which animals learn to make particular responses to avoid or prevent exposure to an aversive stimulus.
2 factor theory of avoidance
A theory that avoidance involves an interaction between classical conditioning and operant conditioning.
Cognitive expectancy
The expected outcome of a response, used as a guide in determining whether or not to make that response.
Learned helplessness
A phenomenon in which exposure to an uncontrollable punisher teaches an expectation that responses are ineffectual, which in turn reduces the motivation to attempt new avoidance responses.
