lecture 9 - emotion

Question 1

what is the amygdala involved with?

Answer 1

fear -

Question 2

what is reduced cortical activation and connectivity involved with?

Answer 2

sadness

Question 3

what is the basal ganglia involved with?

Answer 3

disgust

Question 4

what is the circumplex model of human emotion?

Answer 4

Emotions are defined on a spectrum of arousal and valence (subjective experience of emotional quality: good vs bad)

Question 5

what is the Geneva emotion wheel?

Answer 5

Similar to circumplex model but spectrum is along pleasantness and control - Being in control of an emotion is more important than the state of arousal

Question 6

what is an approach approach?

Answer 6

“approach emotions” evoke the desire to approach the stimulus object or situation (e.g., happiness, surprise, and anger

Question 7

what is an avoidance approach?

Answer 7

“withdrawal emotions” evoke the desire to withdraw from objects or situations linked to these emotions (e.g., sadness, disgust, boredom, and fear).

Question 8

how does emotion affect memory?

Answer 8

Highly emotional memories are more robust to forgetting, Amygdala mediates emotional memories by interacting with the hippocampus

Question 9

how does arousal affect our memory performance?

Answer 9

increased it as it enhances our consolidation

Question 10

how does emotion affect our attention?

Answer 10

Emotion increases salience of stimuli and hence perceptual processing of and attention towards them
As a result, other stimuli presented at the same time get processed less and are less attended to
This can facilitate (if emotion stimulus is target) or decrease (if the emotional stimulus is not the target) performance in tasks - when we look at visual search tasks certain things pop out