Theory of emotional brain
Neuroscientists who proposed the Theory of emotion.
Philips and Ledoux
Also known as the 'fear centre
the amygdala
What are flashbulb memories?
Memories attached to emotion remembered in detail
The origin of emotional theory is
evolition/evolutionary
How do you call the process of "putting together" all the stimuli in order to form a new memory?
encoding
Name of the study that investigated flashbulb memory in regard to J.F Kennedy murder
Brown and Kulik
This is the pathway LeDoux says is hardwired and evolutionary.
Explain the route.
Short route.
It goes from the sensory thalamus to the amygdala
The amygdala is mostly associated with _________ emotional responses related to the survival circuits, while the hippocampus is more associated with ____________ memories that require processing.
1. unconscious
2. conscious
Which of the following is the main methodological problem with Brown and Kulik's study into flashbulb memory?
Using self-report questionnaires which make it impossible to check the accuracy of the memories.
Survival circuits are brain functions which allow individuals to survive, such as
defence, feeding, and reproduction.
The amygdala is resposible of the __________ response and the hippocmpus of the _________
1. emotional
2. memory
How does the case of HM (Corkin 1997) support or challenge theories of flashbulb memory?
Despite his anterograde amnesia, HM was able to explain why some celebrities were famous, presumably because of the additional emotional processing involved.
Explain the long route
Passes via the sensory cortex and hippocampus before it results in an emotional response.
Which of the following is the method and design of Levine and Bluck's (2004) study on emotion and memory accuracy of the OJ Simpson verdict?
quasi-experiment
Why is Neisser and Harsch's (1992) flashbulb memory study considered methodological superior to Brown and Kulik's original study?
They used the same questionnaire immediately after the event, and again three years later, which increased both the reliability and validity of measurement.