PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Roller Coaster, Prefrontal Cortex, Thalamus
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They do not put the coin in the box: evolutionarily meaningful events are more memorable, study by nairne et al. , 2007, remember items by associating them with 1. How pleasant they are: group 1 remembered best and longest, flashbulb memories. Learning and phobia: classical conditioning develops phobia, associate stimulus with fear, operant conditioning maintains phobia, negative reinforcement - relief when away from stimulus. Emotion: a positive or negative experience that is associated with a particular pattern of physiological activity (text, p. 316) Affect: feeling associated with emotion - what we call the emotion , outward expression of emotion - facial expression, gestures, tone of voice, etc. Mood: diffuse, long-lasting emotional state[s] , affect is to weather, mood is to climate. Evolutionary adaptation of emotion: motivates our actions to approach or avoid, communicate needs, strengthen social relations, help with decisions, characterizing emotions, no universally accepted model, but some emotions universally recognized. Discrete emotions: anger, sadness, happiness, fear, disgust, surprise, contempt, embarrassment.
