1 / 17

Cognition and Emotion

Cognition and Emotion. Emotions consist of 3 components Physiological changes that are not conscious (autonomic, sympathetic, parasympathetic and endocrine system activation); fight or flight response. 2. The person’s subjective feeling/interpretation of the emotion also known as APPRAISAL

arty
Download Presentation

Cognition and Emotion

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Cognition and Emotion

  2. Emotions consist of 3 components • Physiological changes that are not conscious (autonomic, sympathetic, parasympathetic and endocrine system activation); fight or flight response

  3. 2. The person’s subjective feeling/interpretation of the emotion also known as APPRAISAL 3. Associated behavior as a result of the emotion • Lazarus and Folkman: emotion less important than the appraisal and behavior that follows

  4. Lazarus’s Appraisal Theory • Definition: evaluations related to how a situation will impact one’s well being (Lazarus) • Benefit appraisal = positive emotion (aka Primary) • Harm appraisal = negative emotion (aka Secondary) • Active interpretation (appraisal) is the psychological (cognitive) aspect to emotion (aka Outcome) (Lazarus, 1975)

  5. Lazarus and Folkman’s Research on Appraisals (1984, 1988) One’s experience of stress can be influenced by: • Threat vs. Challenge appraisal • Belief in one’s coping abilities • Hardiness (Kobasa) • Motivation, self efficacy, locus of control • Social networks/connections/support

  6. 2 Strategies for Dealing with Stressful Situations • 1. Problem focused coping: aimed at changing/solving the problem

  7. 2. Emotion focused coping: aimed at dealing with the emotional responses Coping Styles

  8. Biological Factors in Emotion • LeDoux (1999) describes two biological pathways for emotion in the brain • Short route: from Thalamus to Amygdala (aka Direct Pathway) • Long route: from Thalamus to Sensory cortex to Hippocampus to Amygdala to Brain stem to body for response (aka Indirect Pathway)

  9. Long route accounts for the appraisal portion of an emotional responseExistence of both long and short routes allows for greater flexibility/efficiency of responses

  10. The Two Factor Theory: Combining Cognition and Physiology • Schachter and Singer (1962) • emotion is a function of both cognitive factors and physiological arousal • people search the immediate environment for emotionally relevant cues to label and interpret unexplained physiological arousal

  11. Emotion and a Cognitive Process: Flashbulb Memories • Why are some events so hard to forget, even if we would like to?

  12. Flashbulb memory: vivid and detailed memories of highly emotional events that are effortlessly encoded (Brown and Kulik, 1977) • 73 of 80 subjects reported flashbulb memories of personal events VS

  13. Role of the Amygdala is critical in flashbulb formation, adding an emotional cocktail of hormones and neurotransmitters that assign a significance to the event that separate it from other events • While emotion can strengthen memories, emotion does not necessarily make memories more accurate

  14. Neisser (1982) Questions Validity/Reliability of Flashbulb Memories • Flashbulb accuracy can be influenced by the following: • Narrative Convention (the need to make the memory a coherent story) • Place, setting, context and audience • Our own personal Schemas • Media coverage (see 9/11 research from APA article) • Neisser’s Study • Questioned subjects 24 hours after the Challenger explosion, then again 2 years later • 40% had distorted/different memories at second reporting

  15. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHULrCMRLUg

More Related