PSY331H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Spreading Activation, Increment And Decrement Operators, Visual Thinking
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Pick an emotion and use three different emotion regulation strategies from class and/or the readings to control this emotion and report on which worked best and why you think it worked. Be sure to clearly relate to course material/theory on emotion regulation. Affective state and content of cognitive processes: mood congruence, affect-as-information model, affect infusion model. Emotional states affect our cognition, memory, perception: your emotional experience in the moment, impact how you see the world, this is because memory and thoughts are associative, affective state and content of cognitive processes. Spreading activation: triggering one node increase in related thoughts: ex. Bread butter, dog cat, thunder lightening. Each emotion node is linked to events, verbal labels, memories of the events etc. Affective states act as a retrieval cue to thinks that were stored in the same affective state: when you are in a bad mood easier to think about bad things, memories.
