Exam 13: Cognition and Emotion

Emotions are characterized by their ___________ and their _____________.

Highly detailed memories for the context in which surprising and important information is learned are called ____________.

Emotions can meaningfully affect perceptual processes.

What is an advantage of perception being distorted for emotional stimuli?

What is "choking under pressure"?

The finding that it is easier to remember things that were learned in the same emotion as a person is experiencing during retrieval is called __________________ memory.

The presence of an emotional target in a visual search display make the detection of that target __________.

Prosody is carried by __________.

The emotional Stroop task __________.

The emotional Stroop task has NOT been used to study __________.

Flashbulb memories can sometimes contain errors.

The drawing of attention to emotional stimuli is more likely to involve the __________ and a reduction in __________.

Emotional prosody is processed more by __________.

If an emotional item occurs during the "moment" of an attentional blink,that item will __________.

Processing emotion in language can be impeded if the __________ is damaged.

For emotional stimuli,there is a(n)__________ in the perceptual processing of details.

What is one disadvantage to attention for emotional information,and how might this be corrected (if at all)?

For emotional stimuli,perceptual processing is increased in the __________.

A brain structure that is often important in emotional memories is the ____________.

Monitoring pressure is caused by __________.