Emotion and attention are two different aspects. Emotion is a state of feelings while attention is a concept that people will encounter in daily life. The feelings and concept may arise or encounter differently in different time and setting. Emotion is characterized by physical arousal, behaviour that reveals the emotion and an inner awareness of feelings (Ciccarelli & White, 2009) like sad, happy, anger and anxious. Anxiety disorder is a common disorder characterized by excessive feeling of anxious. According to Baty (2005) anxiety would affects how an individual think do and reacts in daily life. Thinking and reaction of an individual can affect how one organizes their attention.
People went through different kinds of attention like divide attention or selective attention. Let see on the context of reading, when people try to say the colour of the words instead of reading the words it would be difficult. As adults, people have practiced reading for so long that it is hard to read a word that they look at. The situation shows that people encounter with selective attention. Stroop effect is a phenomenon when the semantic meaning of the word matches with the colour it will be easier to say the colour of the word in which it is attributed to the interference from the word in the chore of responding to the colour (Zurron, Goicoa & Diaz, 2013).
However, the classic stroop test had only focused on the participants’ selective attention; the ability of the participants to identify the colour of the words. This classic study has not attempted to measure the relation of emotion and attention. One of the most significant current discussions in relation between emotion and attention is emotional stroop test. The emotional stroop test is o...
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Some of the most common words moving around in the psychiatric circle are attention Deficit; hyperactivity; Ritalin; ADD, ADHD. These words are being most commonly discussed by most educators, physicians, psychologists and young parents in the society today. In spite of extensive advancements in technology which has brought new insights into the brain and learning, there is still a lacuna in the field of problems faced by children who are unable to remain focused on the task given to them in the classroom owing to their inability to pay attention.
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Emotion is a complex construct that has been explored for many years, yet there is still much to be learned regarding this multifaceted phenomenon. Given the pivotal role that emotion plays in our everyday lives, scholars have demonstrated a continued interest in describing and understanding its functional and structural properties. At its most basic level, emotion is referred to as a positive or negative response towards a given stimulus, which is accompanied by cognitive, behavioral, and physiological characteristics (Carlson, 2013). Although emotions are often perceived to be feelings rather than behaviors, it is often the behavioral mechanisms rather than personal feelings that have adaptive and reproductive significance (Carlson, 2013). In essence, emotion serves as a regulatory mechanism of daily interactions and social relations (Algoe, Fredrickson, & Gable, 2013; Keltner & Haidt, 1999).
Emotions can also put people in all sorts of situations - anger causing someone to think irrationally, unhappiness leading to depression and, possibly, suicide. Although distractions can be hindrances when people are trying to complete projects or finish paragraphs, they can also be useful. People can distract themselves to take their mind off something for a while, they can immerse themselves in a book, a video game, a movie. Emotions are part of what makes people human, and empathy helps us bond and connect with
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The topic of this essay will be to review the evidence that attentional bias causes anxiety. “There is widespread evidence of an attentional bias towards threat material in clinical anxiety” (MacLeod, Mathews & Tata, 1986; Mogg, Mathews & Eysenck, 1992). Certain treatments have been created for anxiety disorders that have been shown to reduce cognitive biases such as attentional bias, Fox et al (2005). This indicates that attentional bias is present within anxiety disorders. Stroop tasks have further developed research on attentional bias within anxiety as shown by Macleod (1991) and Macleod and Mathews (2002). Participants with anxiety disorders produce slower reaction times towards threat stimuli than the controls, indicating that attentional bias for threat related stimuli exists and has a greater effect on anxious individuals.
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In his influential paper “Feeling and Thinking. Preferences need no Inferences” (Zajonc, 1980), he argued for the idea that affect is “precedent to the intellective qualities and elements of experience” (para. 1), and in line with this he put forward several hypothesis to exhibit the supremacy of affect in information processing - in its independence, primacy and automaticity - over cognition. He collected and presented a host of empirical findings to support his argument. Among those, the mere-exposure effect - the experimental evidence for subject’s preferences, or liking, by merely being exposed to certain stimuli without the subjects’ conscious (and thus assumedly cognitive) processing of them, was cited as the supporting evidence for preferential processing of affect before cognition (or “feeling without knowing” as described by Zajonc) (Zajonc, 1980). He also based his argument on the biological assumption that distinctive brain area, specifically the locus coeruleus, was responsible for the processing of affective information, and thus to complete his argument for the independence of the emotion apart from
Emotion is the “feeling” aspect of consciousness that includes physical, behavioral, and subjective (cognitive) elements. Emotion also contains three elements which are physical arousal, a certain behavior that can reveal outer feelings and inner feelings. One key part in the brain, the amygdala which is located within the limbic system on each side of the brain, plays a key role in emotional processing which causes emotions such as fear and pleasure to be involved with the human facial expressions.The common-sense theory of emotion states that an emotion is experienced first, leading to a physical reaction and then to a behavioral reaction.The James-Lange theory states that a stimulus creates a physiological response that then leads to the labeling of the emotion. The Cannon-Bard theory states that the physiological reaction and the emotion both use the thalamus to send sensory information to both the cortex of the brain and the organs of the sympathetic nervous system. The facial feedback hypothesis states that facial expressions provide feedback to the brain about the emotion being expressed on the face, increasing all the emotions. In Schachter and Singer’s cognitive arousal theory, also known as the two-factor theory, states both the physiological arousal and the actual arousal must occur before the emotion itself is experienced, based on cues from the environment. Lastly, in the cognitive-mediational theory
An analysis of factors that determine the allocation of attention was composed by Khaneman (1973) in which cognitive systems were formed and held responsible for allocating cogniti...
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Emotional Intelligence is very vital to our social kills and how we react to certain situations. According to (Social Learning Theory: How Close Is Too Close, 2017), emotional intelligence includes elements of social intelligence, self-awareness, and self-regulation of emotions. Our emotional intelligence impacts how we interact with family, friends, and co-workers. People’s emotions are often triggered by situations that they have no control and they begin to feel stressed or hopeless. According to (Hurley, 2002) emotions are automatic responses that are prompted by what occurring in the environment that causes our bodies to react very quickly. In this essay, I will be discussing how we can be “in check” with our emotions, how to manage our