PSYC18H3 Study Guide - Amygdala
Document Summary
Oatley and johnson laird (1987, 1996) proposed emotions involve 2 signaling in (1) organizational: sets the brain into a particular mode of organization (readiness), along with urge to act in line with this readiness, specific to the particular basic emotion: can have many sources, inside (body) and outside (environment, quick, automatic; what to do next (2) informational: the information it carries enables us to make mental models of the events and their possible causes and implications. Pathways devoted to each emotion w/ past experiences and related concepts in semantic network: when experience an emotion, all associations of that emotion become more accessible, we should be able to learn material that is congruent: it is integrated into active memory structures and more easily retrieved, however, sometimes memories that are incongruent with mood may be recalled better than those that are congruent.
