Talk:Motivation and emotion/Book/2013/Emotion and memory

Ideas
Nice work getting some headings started :) Might I suggest referring back to our Cognitive Psychology essay on False Memories for some ideas? False mems are shown to be highly susceptible to emotion. Highly emotional significant life events are more susceptible to distortion when encoding/retrieving the memory. Think of the victim of a robbery who falsely identifies a culprit as having waved a gun in their face because the initial memory was emotionally charged and not accurately retained at the time. Also I think that we are more likely to have more more highly accessible memories for emotional events than everyday events. eg. the life-script hypothesis (or whatever it was called) where you selectively remember, for example, your wedding or college graduation easier than what you ate for breakfast the day before your wedding or college grad. Hope these ideas can help you! Best of luck! PatrickBateman (discuss • contribs) 04:43, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for that Patrick - it definitely helps me with idea in which direction to go in :) -Akshoo

Hello! To add to the above comment, in Cognitive Psychology, we learned about how a stressful life event or pressure in one context can reflect in how something is recalled. Just a thought :) Good luck with it :) Pheonix (discuss • contribs) 11:13, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

Hi, your page is looking great. In addition to the above comments, may I suggest that it also might be interesting to investigate if certain emotions (particularly happy emotions) help the encoding of memories, for example is an individual more likely to remember something that was encoded at a time of extreme joy? Best of luck :) Kelseyv23 (discuss • contribs) 11:52, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

Hi! You could possibly include a section on flash bulb memories (http://www.apa.org/monitor/2011/09/memories.aspx)from memory (HA memory) these are closly linked to highly emotional events i.e. 9/11 Florence21 (discuss • contribs)

Hey, hope your doing well in the last few hours for this assignment! I'm looking at anticipation for my chapter and in a few areas I look at emotional anticipation. I talk about anticipation originally coming from a memory of past events and the emotions felt. I hope that makes sense... But I was wondering if I could link my page with yours as emotion and memory play a part in anticipation? --Christine.DW (discuss • contribs) 16:46, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

Links
Hi,

Was doing youtube browse this morning of ted talks and there was a fascinating talk by 2002 nobel prize winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman, its called the riddle of experience vs. memory. I would definitely recommend watching it and maybe add to an external link section.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgRlrBl-7Yg&list=PLOGi5-fAu8bEvGh0Tf_riVcOgvAU4FxJ3&index=9

Tovey ally (discuss • contribs) 23:41, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

Helpful fact
Hopefully this isn't too late to help you with your chapter but I came across this in one of my articles. It mentions that when individuals suppress their emotions it can result in memory impairments especially in a social context. This is mainly due to the individual exerting cognitive resources to perform the regulation of their emotion.

John, O. J. & Gross, J. J. (2004). Healthy and Unhealthy Emotion Regulation: Personality Processes, Individual Differences and Life Span Development. Journal Of Personality, 72(6), 1301-1334. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2004.00298.x --Kstan (discuss • contribs) 11:42, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

comments
This is really good. Good use of pictures and interactive learning! --Florence21 (discuss • contribs) 11:36, 3 November 2013 (UTC)