{"id":4229,"date":"2018-09-18T17:52:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T21:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/?p=4229"},"modified":"2018-09-18T18:12:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T22:12:05","slug":"consciousness-and-emotion-learning-objectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/learning-objectives\/consciousness-and-emotion-learning-objectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Consciousness and Emotion Learning Objectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What are consciousness and emotion?<\/p>\n<p>\uf0b7 Consciousness hard to explain \u2013 it&#8217;s private, intrinsic, directly apprehended, indescribable<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Perceiving the environment<\/li>\n<li>Social communication and action<\/li>\n<li>Controlling actions<\/li>\n<li>Planning and reasoning<\/li>\n<li>Integration of information<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\uf0b7 Emotion \u2013 brief affective (emotional) experience<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Affect \u2013 specifically refers to an emotion displayed but has come to mean almost anything related to emotion<\/li>\n<li>Mood \u2013 more chronic and pervasive state<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Are they the same sorts of things as cognition?<\/p>\n<p>\uf0b7 Emotion is a factor which may be important but whose inclusion at this point would unnecessarily complicate the cognitive-scientific enterprise (Gardner, 1985) \uf0b7 Cognition is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Perception<\/li>\n<li>Attention<\/li>\n<li>Memory<\/li>\n<li>Learning<\/li>\n<li>Thinking<\/li>\n<li>Etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Main Approaches<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Philosophical, introspective, rational<\/li>\n<li>Cognitive, experimental<\/li>\n<li>Survey\/correlational<\/li>\n<li>Neural correlates, neurocases \uf0b7 Appraisal theories:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>&#8211; <\/strong>Affective Primacy \u2013 cognition and emotion are separate but they may interact How does emotion relate to cognition?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Role of cognition in emotion<\/li>\n<li>Regulation of emotion \u2013 usually by deliberate cognitive efforts<\/li>\n<li>Influence of emotion on cognitions \u2013 mood influences decision making much more strongly than judgement<\/li>\n<li>Biases \u2013 cognitive processes that support (negative emotions) and emotional states that promote maladaptive cognitions<\/li>\n<li>Phenomena:<\/li>\n<li>Mood congruity effects \u2013 recall of information congruent with current mood (stronger for positive mood)<\/li>\n<li>Mood\/state-dependent memory (Kenealy, 1997)<\/li>\n<li>Though congruity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How does consciousness relate to cognition?<\/p>\n<p>\uf0b7 2 hemispheres, 2 consciousnesses?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Left hemisphere \u2013 language and logic<\/li>\n<li>Right hemisphere \u2013 wholistic and spatial tasks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\uf0b7 Split-brain patients<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are consciousness and emotion? \uf0b7 Consciousness hard to explain \u2013 it&#8217;s private, intrinsic, directly apprehended, indescribable Perceiving the environment Social communication and action Controlling actions Planning and reasoning&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/learning-objectives\/consciousness-and-emotion-learning-objectives\/\">Continue Reading<span> Consciousness and Emotion Learning Objectives<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[106],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}