PSY BEH 11B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Relate, Inductive Reasoning, Dual Process Theory
19 May 2016
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Study guide: james-lange perception of the event bodily changes subjective experience. Relations between emotional and cognitive development emotion is a direct and irrational response to external stimuli. Emotions provides energy, motivates action, and communicates intentions, but they are instinctive, primitive and irrational: emotion served adaptive purposes. Cognitive system couldn"t function without the emotional system to mark what is important. Emotions inform us of what is going on in and around us. Mental representation, for example: contents in the mind that stand for some object, event, or state of affairs: analogical and symbolic representations. Analogical an idea that shares some of the actual characteristics of the object it represents, take the form of mental images. Symbolic a mental representation that stands for some content without sharing any characteristics with the thing it represents (words: associative networks and spreading activation. Associative network a network with nodes and links. The nodes represent a mental representation; the link represent connections between the symbols.
