PSY331H1 Chapter Notes -False Alarm, Cognitive Load
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Jessica tracy and richard robins: tested assumption that emotional expressions evolved in order to convey fitness- enhancing messages, emotional expressions evolved to communicate needs that facilitate survival and reproduction. These emotions would be the basic emotions: the ability to recognize these expressions would also be an evolutionary need. The present research: testing whether recognition can occur under cognitive load, quickly, and efficiently, study 2 differs from 1 in that they include sces for which the research is divided on whether they are basic or not. Method: tested whether accurate recognition of anger, contempt, fear, disgust, happiness, pride, sadness, and surprise can occur quickly, efficiently, and without deliberation. 3 conditions for viewing: fast (restricted response time), deliberate (take time), and under cognitive load (distracted). 101 students, 65% women: viewed photos on a computer. In the quick condition, recognition rate was significant for all emotions, except contempt: participants could discriminate among similarly valenced emotions within 600 ms.
