Exam 8: Emotion and Cognition

Niedenthal and colleagues put participants into either a sad, happy, or neutral state, and asked them to decide as quickly as possible whether strings of letters were words or not. Some of the words were emotionally laden, relating to sadness, anger, happiness, and love. What did they find?

Based on the findings of Halberstadt and colleagues (1995), which word from each of the following homophone pairs would you expect a sad participant to write down if the words were read aloud to them? Die, dye; poor, pore.

If you are interested in studying mood state-dependent memory effects, should you use a recognition task or a free recall task, and why?

Jared designs a study in which participants have to decide as quickly as possible whether strings of letters are real words or not. What is this task called?

Schwarz and Clore (1983) proposed a model of emotion that suggests people use their affective states as a guiding heuristic when making evaluative judgments. What is the name for their model?

Which of the following statements about emotion-related memory biases in older adults is true?

The phenomenon known as weapon focus is an example of what?

What is the term that describes the tendency for individuals in a particular emotion state to retrieve information from memory that has the same affective tone?

People can evaluate the persuasiveness of an argument using superficial cues or heuristics, or they can deeply process and analyze it. According to the affect-as-information model, what effect does happiness have on depth of information processing?

Which type of appraisal from appraisa theory is particularly relevant in explaining the effects of discrete emotions on risk judgments, according to Lerner and Keltner?