Describe how emotion can alter perceptual and attentional ...

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Describe how emotion can alter perceptual and attentional processing.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Flashbulb memory implies picture perfect memory for an event. Is this an accurate description of memory for emotional public events? Support your answer.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Answer to Question 1

Answer: There are projections from the visual cortex to amygdala. When we see an emotional stimulus, the amygdala is activated. There are also projections from the amygdala to the visual cortex. When the amygdala is activated it can produce increased vigilance for threat-related stimuli. Research also suggests that emotion is associated with enhanced perception and that emotion has a similar effect on the areas of the brain responsible for processing perceptual information that attention has.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: Studies such as Neisser et al. (1992) indicate that people are much more confident in their memories for emotional public events than they are accurate. Although they can remember the public event, they become more inaccurate concerning their own connection to the event over time.