How Emotions Affect Learning

1. Exposure

1.1. Exposure to a neutral stimilus leads to inreases in liking when the stimilus is reencountered (mere exposure effect).

1.2. People cannot distinguish between old and new items on the basis of if they've seen them before, but the could distinguish between old and new items on the basis of familiarity or previous similar exposure.

2. Likability

2.1. Excerpts that were liked were remembered than those that were disliked

2.2. LIking is related to familiarity as well as similarity.

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2.3. Liked excerpts are processed more thoroughly than other excerpts leading to stronger memory and better recognition.

3. Recognition

3.1. Recognition varried as a function of liking

3.1.1. School

3.2. Associations between recognition, familiarity, and similariaty

4. Music

4.1. Provides a good ammount of complex stimuli for which increases and decreases in liking as a function of exposure have been observed

4.1.1. English

4.1.1.1. Mother tongue

4.1.2. German

4.1.2.1. Excellent

4.1.3. Spanish

4.1.3.1. Good

4.2. Memory for music is most associated with both increases and decreases in liking Making music the perfect choice in determinint emotions and ones ability to learn/remember.

5. Memory

5.1. Memory and liking often co-occur

5.2. Emotions and memory are integrally linked