Evaluate the extent to which cognitive and biological factors interact in emotion.
Biological factors affect emotion in that, in the brain the amygdala which is the small structure in the temporal lobe, affects the brain’s emotional circuit. This part of the brain affects emotion because when the amyglada receives input from the sensory information the amyglada transforms this information into emotional signals which then the body uses to initiate and control emotional responses. There are actually two routes that the body can use to get to the emotional response, one is through the short route which goes from the thalamus to the amyglada, or through the neocortex and the hippocampus, but both of these routes lead to emotional response. Cognitive factors interact in emotion in that people evaluate emotion in their own way. To begin with Folkman found that people use different strategies to deal with stress in different situations. For example, some people use problem focused coping which is used to change the emotions rather than changing the problematic situation, yet some people use the emotional focused coping which is meant to handle the emotions Also, as Speisman found it is not the events that elicit emotional stress, yet rather it is how people interpret these events. Lastly, the flashbulb effect, which is where people remember very vividly where they are when a terrible accident occurs, this is cognitive because it happens based on peoples’ environment and the events that people remember are different on a case by case basis. Also a good cognitive example in emotion is that Holmberg found that men whose marriage had become less happy over time tended to recall early interactions in the marriage as being more negative than they originally reported, which means that cognition effects emotion. Also, the only case study against this is the Neisser study that questioned the idea of the flashbulb memory. He states that the memories are so vivid because the event itself is rehearsed after the event. He also states that flashbulb memory may simply be a narrative convention, and the flashbulb memory theory is simply a governed by a storytelling schema.
Evaluate the extent to which cognitive and biological factors interact in emotion.
ReplyDeleteBiological factors affect emotion in that, in the brain the amygdala which is the small structure in the temporal lobe, affects the brain’s emotional circuit. This part of the brain affects emotion because when the amyglada receives input from the sensory information the amyglada transforms this information into emotional signals which then the body uses to initiate and control emotional responses. There are actually two routes that the body can use to get to the emotional response, one is through the short route which goes from the thalamus to the amyglada, or through the neocortex and the hippocampus, but both of these routes lead to emotional response. Cognitive factors interact in emotion in that people evaluate emotion in their own way. To begin with Folkman found that people use different strategies to deal with stress in different situations. For example, some people use problem focused coping which is used to change the emotions rather than changing the problematic situation, yet some people use the emotional focused coping which is meant to handle the emotions Also, as Speisman found it is not the events that elicit emotional stress, yet rather it is how people interpret these events. Lastly, the flashbulb effect, which is where people remember very vividly where they are when a terrible accident occurs, this is cognitive because it happens based on peoples’ environment and the events that people remember are different on a case by case basis. Also a good cognitive example in emotion is that Holmberg found that men whose marriage had become less happy over time tended to recall early interactions in the marriage as being more negative than they originally reported, which means that cognition effects emotion. Also, the only case study against this is the Neisser study that questioned the idea of the flashbulb memory. He states that the memories are so vivid because the event itself is rehearsed after the event. He also states that flashbulb memory may simply be a narrative convention, and the flashbulb memory theory is simply a governed by a storytelling schema.