PSY331H1 Chapter Notes -Cognitive Load
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Effects of emotion regulation on concurrent attentional performance. Ortner, zelazo, and anderson: looked into the attentional demands of unpleasant picture viewing and the emotion regulation strategies used. Introduction: suppression and reappraisal are used to down-regulate or diminish emotions. Reappraisal is a cognitive strategy that involves changing the evaluation of an emotion-eliciting stimulus in order to diminish its impact. Expression suppression is a behavioural strategy that involves inhibiting outward displays of emotion: can be positive or negative in the consequences of down-regulating emotion. Cognitive costs of emotion regulation: emotional regulation is cognitively costly. Implementation-maintenance model of reappraisal proposes that reappraisal is an ongoing, recurring process, rather than being time-limited. Early processes of reappraisal involve choosing and implementing a strategy whereas late processes involve maintaining and revising it over time: predict that reappraisal should come with significant attentional costs to performance on an unrelated cognitive task. Procedure and design: all participants implemented both suppress and reappraise strategies.
