PSYC 221 Chapter 8: Chapter 8 Notes.docx
4 Apr 2014
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Page 204-233, 29 pages page 1 of 9. It occurs non-stop, and is automatic/uncontrollable and exhausting: autobiographical memory: recollected events that belong to a person"s past, often accessed through. Memory over the life span: events that become significant parts of a person"s life tend to be remembered well, such as personal milestones and highly emotional events. They are often of significance and associated with strong emotion (highly arousing: emotional valence can be either positive (excited, happy) or negative (fearful, anxious). Memory & emotion: tested subject"s ability to recall arousing words (profanity and sexually explicit words) and neutral words immediately after presentation; observed better memory for arousing words. Similarly, of emotional and neutral pictures presented, emotional pictures were better remembered 1 year later: the amygdala is linked to emotional memory, exhibiting higher activity in fmri scans in memory for emotional words.
