Emotion on a cognitive process + True - Buchannan & Lovallo

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cortisol

  • stress hormone secreted by adrenal glands

  • assists with memory formation

    • higher levels linked to poorer performance on retrieval tasks on memory

    • slightly elevated cortisol can improve learning and processing of information

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Hippocampus

  • memory centre of the brain

  • high cortisol receptors

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true experiment

  • take place in a controlled environment

  • variables are operationalised

  • random assortment of participants

  • researcher manipulates the IV

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aim of buchanan & lovallo

  • to investigate the effect of cortisol on emotional memory in humans

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method of buchanan & lovallo

  • 48 healthy pp screened for psychiatric & neurological conditions(24 male/female)

  • pp received 20mg of cortisol or placebo

  • pp then shown range of images, either pleasant (nice food, mountain scenery) or unpleasant (disfigured people, threatening weapons) or neutral scenes (bicycle)

  • pp ranked how emotionally arousing they found images

  • one week later pp memories of images were tested

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result of buchanan & lovallo

  • both groups remembered the emotionally arousing images better than neutral ones

  • cortisol group remembered significantly more emotionally arousing images than control group

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conclusion of buchanan & lovallo

  • in conclusion, cortisol affected emotional memory because the pp with cortisol remembered significantly more emotionally arousing images compared to control condition