How are emotions related to cognition?

Answer 1

First of all let's see what we mean by emotion and cognition.

Emotion, in its most general definition, is an intense neural mental state that arises subjectively rather than through conscious effort and evokes either a positive or negative psychological response to move an organism to action.

Cognition: The sort of mental processes described as cognitive or cognitive processes are largely influenced by research which has successfully used this paradigm in the past. Consequently, this description tends to apply to processes such as memory, attention, perception, action, problem solving and mental imagery.

To understand the relation between emotion and cognition, let's take a few factors that define cognition, and see if and how emotions can affect them!

- memory: As we can see from the definition, an emotion creates an intense psychological response. What do we mean by that? When i see you, i fall in love. If you approach me, my heart will start beating fast, my palms will sweat, and i'll start blushing. This will be an intense emotion, and due to this fact, i will always remember the day you came to me and asked me if i wanna go out. Therefore, an emotion affected my memory, which is a part of my cognition.

- attention: Since we started on the "i like you" side, i'll continue with an example from the same category. This new young teacher is very good looking and i kinda have a crush on him. When i'm at his classes, i get to see him, and want to impress him. To do that, i pay a lot of attention at what he says, so that i give the best answers. Now we see how emotions can affect our attention.

Having these examples, think of other examples on how emotion can affect our cognition!

Answer 2

This is a very complex question, but I will try to be brief.

Cognition controls such processes in human beings as perception, attention, learning, memory, and problem solving. There are two types of cognition: experiential (routine) reflective (conscious effort).
Emotions refer to states such as happiness, fear, disgust, annoyance, sadness, anger, anxiety, depression, surprise, and love.
We form emotional memories from emotional events, and the emotional memory itself can be elicited through an event similar to the initial event. Thus, emotions exert a powerful influence on declarative memory and other thought processes.
Emotions also affect working memory, the active memory used for a current task. For example, negative emotions can impair the activity of the prefrontal cortex, an area of brain involved in working memory. That is why when we are emotionally upset we say we "just can't think straight" and why continual emotional distress can create deficits in a child's intellectual abilities, crippling the capacity to learn. Of course, positive emotion can facilitate working memory.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

emotions are reactions to input and processing...its very simple...look at idiot liberals and knee jerk reactions. when emotions are not coupled with reason, the present government is a perfect example of the result.
this country could be in real danger from al qaeda because people react emotionally rather than logically to the world as we know it.

Answer 5

The same way motions are related to Rectum.