Unit 6

Question 1

What is systematic cognition?
When does this happen?

Answer 1

Collecting relevant info and logically evaluating
Happens when sad/no confident

Question 2

What is heuristic cognition?
When does this happen

Answer 2

Easy/superficial considerations
Happens when happy/confident

Question 3

What does the theory of po/sitive affect entail

Answer 3

Ppl who are happier tend to be more creative and generate more ideas

Question 4

What is the affect infusion model?

Answer 4

Ppl use current emotion as information to decide, even if unrelated

Question 5

What is an example of the affect infusion model?

Answer 5

Sees something funny –> more likely to buy something

Question 6

What are flash-bulb memories?
Example?

Answer 6

Intense flash of memory
~ 9/11

Question 7

What make flash-bulb memories unreliable?

Answer 7

Less detail, more inconsistent info overtime

Question 8

What is the social-intuitionist model?

Answer 8

Strong intuitions abt right/wrong
We rationalize judgments AFTER decision

Question 9

True or false: anger influences u to pay attention to threatening things

Answer 9

False. Attention towards rewarding things

Question 10

True or false: excitement influences u to pay attention to rewarding things

Answer 10

True

Question 11

True or false: fear influences us to pay attention to rewarding things

Answer 11

False. Attention towards threatening things