PSY30400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Memory Consolidation, Cortisol
Chapter 8: Everyday Memory and Memory Errors
• “oe eets are ore eorale i a perso’s life tha others
o tend to be significant, important to that person, and associated with emotion
• Memory and emotion = intertwined
o Emotions:
▪ assoiated ith speial events, such as beginning and ending
relationships or something like 9/11
▪ Experiment by LaBar and Phelps tested sujets’ aility to reall arousig
words and neutral words
• observed better memory for arousing
▪ Amygdala: brain structure that is very important in emotion
• higher brain activity for emotional words = support
• Patient B.P. =
o support for connection between amygdala and emotion
▪ he suffered damage to his amygdala
o When shown a slide show about a boy and his mother in
which the boy is injured halfway through the story, his
brain activity was not enhanced at the emotional part of
the story unlike normal patients
▪ Shows that emotions may trigger mechanisms in
the amygdala that helps us to better remember
events associated with emotions
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