Lecture 4. Cognition and Emotion

Question 1

What axis is valence on the valence and arousal chart?

Answer 1

y axis

Question 2

what axis is arousal on the valence and arousal chart?

Answer 2

x axis

Question 3

Why is the valence arousal chart in a c shape?

Answer 3

because high arousal rarely occurs with neutral valence, high arousal is almost always accompanied with highly positive or negative valence

Question 4

What is the effect of a subliminal stroop or dot probe task and other attentional tasks?

Answer 4

Determines unconscious or unintentional responses to stimuli, not necessarily uncontrollable or efficient though

Question 5

what is the effect of supraliminal attentional tasks on determining automaticity?

Answer 5

determines controllability, effiency and unintentional to some degree as well

Question 6

what does negative priming show in automaticity?

Answer 6

unintentional processing

Question 7

Was unintentional processing found for MDD?

Answer 7

Nope!

Question 8

What is a reason that unconscious processing has not been shown in MDD?

hint: it has something to do with specific AD phobias

Answer 8

we can show that people unconsciously are affected by spiders if they have a spider phobia, but we dont necessarily know the cues to present to people subconsciously with MDD