TB9 P&C Lecture 4; Emotion and memory 0.0 / 5 ? PsychologyTB9 P&CUniversityNone Created by: mint75Created on: 22-05-16 13:35 Which influences memory consolidation more? Arousal 1 of 23 Stimulus of the amygdala AFTER encoding... Facilitates hippocampus consolidation 2 of 23 What pattern of results is predicted by the Yerkes Dodson Law? Worst efficiency of memory for low and high levels of stress. Increased efficiency for mid level 3 of 23 What is a key issue in arousal and memory? Whether general levels or arousal v.s the kind of emotion that is having the effect 4 of 23 What is used to measure effects of emotional valence and arousal longitudinally? International affective pictures 5 of 23 What was found in a study of emotional valence and arousal? Better recall of highly arousing images but no differences between positive and negative. 1 year later, highly arousing best recalled 6 of 23 The effect of arousal on memory is only observed...? Increased arousal can facilitate recall of positive, negative and neutral stimuli (like numbers) 7 of 23 Short term stress...? Selectively impairs some tasks e.g STM but not others e.g stroop task 8 of 23 A smaller ___ is associated with people who develop PTSD after a stressful event? Hippocampus 9 of 23 As people get older they exhibit the positive memory bias which is...? They try to maintain wellbeing and recall more positive than negative memories 10 of 23 Automatic encoding of emotion...? Facilitates consolidation 11 of 23 Do patients with damaged amygdalas still show improved memory for arousing stimuli? No, and they dont show the emotional advantage when asked to recall the images an 1hr later 12 of 23 What is there a correlation between? Strength of the amygdala response at encoding and later recall 13 of 23 What is a long-term stress hormone released from the adrenal gland? Glucocorticoid 14 of 23 In a study of tree shrews, what does stress from their natural environments cause? Reduces axon branching in the hippocampus 15 of 23 In a study using identical twins and combat trauma experience...? The small hippocampus twin with combat experience was most likely to develop PTSD 16 of 23 What is an example of state dependent retrieval? People being able to recall drunk memories only when they are drunk 17 of 23 What is the Velten technique of mood induction? Pps read self referential statements designed to make them happy or sad 18 of 23 What is an issue with explicit mood manipulation techniques? Pps may actively select mood congruent information from memory 19 of 23 Which odor is used to induce unpleasant emotions like disgust? Pyridine 20 of 23 Do semantically similar items show strong excitatory links in memory representation? Yes 21 of 23 What is a flashbulb memory? A 'print now' in memory system for emotionally salient, highly arousing and important events. They are unique relative to other memories 22 of 23 When people were asked about the challenger space shuttle explosion...? After 1 day, 21% reported first seeing it on TV and after 2.5 years 45% report seeing it on TV 23 of 23
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