COGNITION
STUDYING AND ENCODING MEMORIES
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Question
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Emotion blocks memory, and it is generally true that we are unable to recall highly emotional events.
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Excitement tends to increase the chance that an event will be remembered, but stress decreases the chance that an event will be remembered.
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Stress tends to increase the chance that an event will be remembered, but excitement decreases the chance that an event will be remembered.
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The effect of emotion on memory depends on the interpretation of the event in the frontal lobes.
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Emotion enhances memory because it is important for our survival to remember events that make us emotional.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which of the following statements most accurately reflects the relationship between emotions and memory? Emotion enhances memory because it is important for our survival to remember events that make us emotional.
Detailed explanation-2: -Emotion also facilitates encoding and helps retrieval of information efficiently. However, the effects of emotion on learning and memory are not always univalent, as studies have reported that emotion either enhances or impairs learning and long-term memory (LTM) retention, depending on a range of factors.
Detailed explanation-3: -The limbic system is a collection of structures involved in processing emotion and memory, including the hippocampus, the amygdala, and the hypothalamus.
Detailed explanation-4: -As people get older they tend to have more difficulty with some aspects of memory, so to keep a younger psychological age requires that you beat these memory problems. On the other hand, people’s abilities to cope with negative emotions improve as they get older.