TB9 P&C Lecture 4; Emotion and memory

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Which influences memory consolidation more?
Arousal
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Stimulus of the amygdala AFTER encoding...
Facilitates hippocampus consolidation
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What pattern of results is predicted by the Yerkes Dodson Law?
Worst efficiency of memory for low and high levels of stress. Increased efficiency for mid level
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What is a key issue in arousal and memory?
Whether general levels or arousal v.s the kind of emotion that is having the effect
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What is used to measure effects of emotional valence and arousal longitudinally?
International affective pictures
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What was found in a study of emotional valence and arousal?
Better recall of highly arousing images but no differences between positive and negative. 1 year later, highly arousing best recalled
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The effect of arousal on memory is only observed...?
Increased arousal can facilitate recall of positive, negative and neutral stimuli (like numbers)
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Short term stress...?
Selectively impairs some tasks e.g STM but not others e.g stroop task
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A smaller ___ is associated with people who develop PTSD after a stressful event?
Hippocampus
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As people get older they exhibit the positive memory bias which is...?
They try to maintain wellbeing and recall more positive than negative memories
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Automatic encoding of emotion...?
Facilitates consolidation
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Do patients with damaged amygdalas still show improved memory for arousing stimuli?
No, and they dont show the emotional advantage when asked to recall the images an 1hr later
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What is there a correlation between?
Strength of the amygdala response at encoding and later recall
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What is a long-term stress hormone released from the adrenal gland?
Glucocorticoid
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In a study of tree shrews, what does stress from their natural environments cause?
Reduces axon branching in the hippocampus
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In a study using identical twins and combat trauma experience...?
The small hippocampus twin with combat experience was most likely to develop PTSD
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What is an example of state dependent retrieval?
People being able to recall drunk memories only when they are drunk
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What is the Velten technique of mood induction?
Pps read self referential statements designed to make them happy or sad
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What is an issue with explicit mood manipulation techniques?
Pps may actively select mood congruent information from memory
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Which odor is used to induce unpleasant emotions like disgust?
Pyridine
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Do semantically similar items show strong excitatory links in memory representation?
Yes
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What is a flashbulb memory?
A 'print now' in memory system for emotionally salient, highly arousing and important events. They are unique relative to other memories
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When people were asked about the challenger space shuttle explosion...?
After 1 day, 21% reported first seeing it on TV and after 2.5 years 45% report seeing it on TV
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