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Cognition and Emotions
Cognition and Emotions
Conscious mental reaction subjectively experienced as strong feeling, usually accompanied by physiological and behavioral changes in the body
Create a poster that depicts the different emotions that a Psych student feels before, during and after a test.
How do biological and cognitive factors interact? With your group, come up with a MODEL of emotion, starting from the SITUATION or EVENT that could trigger the emotion.
Problem-Focused Coping
Emotion-Focused Coping
Cognitive appraisal seems to influence the emotional reaction, illustrating how cognitive factors interact with emotion
Cognitive and Biological Factors are both essential to emotion They interact in a way that one cannot arise without the other The more elaborate the emotion, or the less frequently one has encountered an emotion (in other words, the more INTENSE) and emotion is, the higher the involvement of deliberate conscious processing
Do you remember details about what, where you were when the following happened?
Theory of Flashbulb Memory (Brown & Kulik) Flashbulb memory = special kind of emotional memory
memories of the circumstances in which one first learned of a very surprising and consequential (emotionally arousing) event. Emotion facilitates memory recall
Neisser & Harsch (1992) Investigated the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster Investigated peoples memory accuracy of the incident 24 hours and 2 years after 40% had distorted memories
Emotion facilitates memory confidence, not accurate recall