Mood and emotions Flashcards
Emotions
effects your learning and remembering
- emotional arousal is important not the info
- Pleasant»_space; unpleasant
- Pos. have more contextual details
- strong emotion can impair memory for less emotional events and info experienced at the same time
- diff. emotional states may impair or help memory, for diff memory tasks
Mood
affected what we pay attention to and encoding process
Mood congruence
by which we remember events that match our current mood state
Mood dependence
remembering is easier when your mood at retrieval matches your mood at encoding
Amygdala
brain region most implicated in emotional memory
- Amy + hippocampus act synergistically to form LTM
- modulates memory through adrenal stress hormones and neurotransmitters
Other brain regions involved w/ emotion
Cerebellum = related to LTM fear
Dorsolateral cortex: more active when we are surprised by unexpected responses
Retrieval
re-access to events/ info from the past
Retrieval mode
Effort to retrieve (LTM–> STM/WM
Hemispheric encoding/ asymmetry
right = retrieval
left = encoding
Encoding specificity
memories are easily retrieved if emotional cues at the same time are similar to when the memory was stored
- Recall of unrecognizable events
cued recall tests have better results than free recall tests
- Tip of the tongue (TOT)
intense feeling of knowing something since before even though we are not able to retrieve
- Study-test interactions in environmental context
retrieval is easier if it takes place in the same environment where the event happened when encoded
- Mood congruence effect
studies manipulating pos. or neg. thoughts of life events to induce happy/unhappy mood
- State-dependent learning
changes in the state of consciousness are manipulated during encoding and retrieval
