Exam 13: Cognition and Emotion

People represent the experience of emotion in a described event __________.

The person who was less able to control his emotions following a traumatic railroad construction accident when a tamping rod was blown through his brain was __________.

Emotions can best be described as __________.

If an emotional picture is presented after an item the subject tried to recall,as in the Finn and Roediger (2011)study,then memory for those items will be __________.

The Yerkes-Dodson law states the moderately emotional events are remembered worst.

The expression of emotional can be conveyed in spoken language through the use of _____________.

Prosody communicates emotional information in spoken language.

Emotion is independent of cognition.

For choking under pressure,the type of pressure that occurs when a person focuses on how they are doing a task is called _________ pressure.

Emotional information can be conveyed using prosody.What are three other ways that language users can convey emotion to other people?

Compared to neutral information,emotional information is remembered __________.

If the amygdala is damaged,classical conditioning to aversive stimuli may be __________.

What influence do emotions have on the processing of otherwise abstract words,like "redemption"?

The idea that memory is better at moderate levels of emotional intensity is consistent with __________.

Emotional memories benefit less from the consolidation process that occurs during sleep.

Outcome-based pressure can be overcome by __________.

Mood-congruent memory means that it is easier to remember when your mood state at retrieval is the same as it was at encoding.

Suppressing emotions gives you greater attentional control later.

At high levels of emotional intensity,better memory for central details of an event result in __________ memories.

Which neurological structure is important for processing emotions?