TB9 P&C Lecture 4; Emotion and memory

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1. What is there a correlation between?

  • Strength of the amygdala response at encoding and later recall
  • Strength of the amygdala response at encoding and immediate recall
  • Strength of the amygdala response at encoding and hippocampal retrieval
  • Strength of the amygdala response at encoding and wellbeing
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2. Which influences memory consolidation more?

  • Semantic salience
  • Arousal
  • Emotional valence
  • Perceptual valence

3. What is the Velten technique of mood induction?

  • Pps read self referential statements designed to make them happy or sad
  • Pps mood is implictly manipulated through odor presentation e.g fear sweat
  • MEPs are recorded from muscle groups associated with positive and negative emotions
  • TMS is used to stimulate motor cortex during induction of different emotional states

4. What is an issue with explicit mood manipulation techniques?

  • Pps may conceal their true emotions
  • Pps may actively select mood congruent information from memory
  • Pps may make a concious effort to resist mood manipulation
  • Pps may not understand the task and

5. What is a flashbulb memory?

  • A 'print now' in memory system for important events. Emotional salience doesnt matter
  • A 'print now' in memory system for emotionally salient, highly arousing and important events. They are unique relative to other memories
  • Accurate and highly detailed memories of highly arousing events (negative)
  • Inaccurate but highly detailed memories of low arousal events (negative)
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