Exam 10: Emotion and Cognition

According to the broaden and build model, positive emotions help expand our attention more broadly across the environment, so we are more likely to detect opportunities.

You have to give a presentation in one of your classes, and you know it's important to feel confident. Right before the class, however, something unpleasant happens. Which of the following emotional responses to the event is mostly likely to increase your confidence?

According to your textbook, when making a decision about a risky, but potentially rewarding situation people's emotions are NOT very responsive to:

In a study by Isen and colleagues (1987), participants were randomly assigned to watch either a funny or neutral film clip. They were then given a small candle, a matchbox, and a thumbtack, and asked to attach the candle to a corkboard on the wall. This study was designed to test the effects of positive emotion on .

The trolley dilemma, described in your textbook, is commonly used to study .

Flashbulb memories - vivid and detailed memories of emotionally intense events - tend to be more accurate than memories of neutral experiences.

After viewing a long series of emotionally intense and neutral images, people are more likely to remember the emotional images a year later.

In a study by Cahill and colleagues (1994), researchers gave half of the subjects a drug that temporarily disables some aspects of sympathetic nervous system arousal, and others a placebo. All participants then watched a series of slides, accompanied by a story that was either emotionally intense or neutral. A week later, all participants answered a series of questions about the story. Which group received the highest score, on average?

Which of the following kind of emotion has NOT been found to broaden people's attention, to focus on global patterns rather then detailed elements of those patterns?

Summarize the somatic marker hypothesis, and describe a real-life example (not previously discussed in class or your textbook) of this process.

Jose is watching television one night, and sees a commercial advertising a particular brand of dish soap. The commercial is clever and funny, making him laugh. Two days later, Jose is facing an array of shelves with several brands of dish soap, and has to pick one. Although he does not even remember seeing the commercial two nights earlier, he selects that brand thinking it is probably the best. This example illustrates which of the following theoretical models?

Which of the following is FALSE regarding attention to emotion-inducing stimuli?

On your way to campus one day, your car is rear-ended. Although you and the other driver are both okay, and the accident did not feel that serious, you are informed that your car is a total loss, and the other driver's insurance company is simply going to give you money to buy a new car. You'll have to buy the car quickly, and it's important that you make a good decision, but there are many complex factors to consider. According to research on emotion and cognition, which of the following emotions will most help you in making a good, careful decision?

Which of the following proposes that positive emotions help us expand the focus of our attention, and take advantage of opportunities we might otherwise have overlooked?

In a study by Wilson and colleagues (1993), described in your textbook, participants spent time doing a task, and then chose one of several posters that had been hanging on the wall as a gift to take home. The researchers called participants three weeks later, and asked them to rate how much they liked their new poster. Which of the following best summarizes the implications of the study results?

Explain the difference between systematic and heuristic cognition, and describe one study that documents effects of emotion on this aspect of cognition.

Which of the following proposes that the positive vs. negative valence of affect is used as information to inform decision-making, altering people's evaluations on issues unrelated to the cause of the emotion itself?

Which of the following proposes that people make decisions, in part, by subconsciously estimating their emotional response to the results of each course of action, and then choosing the course that produces the best feeling?