PSYC 2P20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Stroop Effect, Attentional Blink, Visual Search
11 Dec 2016
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An emotion is experienced as a feeling that motivates, organizes, and guides perception, thought, and action . Cognition can influence emotions; appraisals, emotion regulation. Emotions can influence cognition; attention to emotional stimuli, cognition under different affective states. Affect = emotions and not the cause of an event (effect) Categorical approach: several distinct emotions such as anger, fear, happiness, disgust, and sadness. Dimensional approach: two uncorrelated emotion dimensions (e. g. , positive and negative affect) combine to create different emotional states (see lecture diagram) Hierarchical model: distinct subtype of emotion under positive and negative dimensions (see lecture diagram); two separate features and within them are different emotions. Emotions: generally short lived, relatively intense, capture our attention, often have a specific cause (i. e. , fear of heights) Moods: longer lasting, less intense, often outside of awareness, cause often unclear (i. e. , do not realize you"re in a mood" unless someone points it out) Not independent: one can lead into the other.
