PSYC20007 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Paul Ekman, Emotion Classification, Stroop Effect

• School: University of Melbourne
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC20007
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Cognition & emotion: state: also mood" or affect, transient & variable, trait: stable personality characteristic, enduring characteristics of a person, e. g. angry, impulsive, sensitive, anxious, traits tend to make people more likely to display certain states. Basic emotions: facial expressions provide important non-verbal infromation to cognitive system. Informs approach & avoidance behaviur: paul ekman: the big 5 (6?, anger, fear, disgust, happiness, sadness, surprise, biologically hardwired & universally recognised facial expressions. Memory & emotion: bradley et al. (1992): participants studied images and rated them on dimensions of valence & arousal. Attention & emotion: stroop task: stimulus with 2 elements, 1 to be attended to, 1 to ignore, standard result: incongruent slower than congruent condition because word meaning interferes with colour naming, emotional results: In anxious participants, emotion condition slower than natural condition. Bower"s semantic network theory of emotion & cognition: emotions represented as nodes in a network, emotion nodes connected to relevant concepts, words, events & emotions.