PSYC 4750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Research Question

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 4750
• Professor: Erin Rock

Document Summary

Create affect by: recall your emotions during some event, movies, sounds and music can alter moods. Emotionally arousing stimuli (vs neutral: enhanced memory for central details. Over time: memories for neutral stimuli decrease, memories for arousing stimuli can improve. Study: emotion simulation during language comprehension: language evokes emotion. Ex. reading a passage from a favourite novel. Interaction between emotion and language not well understood: research question. Does emotion processing impact language comprehension: procedure. Measuring time needed to comprehend sentences describing emotionally laden events (negative or positive) When participants in a matching or mismatching emotional state. Manipulated emotion by either having participant hold a pen in the mouth to produce either. A frown or pout (hold with lips: methods. Dv: how long for the participant to decide whether the sentence described pleasant/unpleasant event. Effect of emotions on speed of judgement. Pleasant sentences were read 54 msc faster when participa(cid:374)ts were (cid:862)s(cid:373)ili(cid:374)g(cid:863) tha(cid:374) whe(cid:374) (cid:862)frow(cid:374)i(cid:374)g(cid:863)