Emotion and Learning

    Shame and Affect Theory (Nathanson)
    • PTSD by (No author), 5/24/96
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        • Storage and Retrieval by Don Nathanson, 6/4/96

    Emotion and Learning
    by Fiona Geiser, 6/22/96

    Dr. Nathanson,

    I have additional questions in response to your posting that a poor memory makes it difficult, if not impossible, to experience emotion. The following is my attempt to paraphrase what I thought were your conclusions. In order to feel emotion, we need a script, or memory, of previous experiences. Since emotion is believed to be an important component of learning, decreased emotional experience would probably result in decreased learning.

    It is a cascading series:

    affect (stimulus) ==> memory (script) ==> emotion ==> revision of memory (learning) ===> response (behavior)

    So, what does this mean in relationship to ADD? Does this suggest that ADD, left untreated, results in emotional and learning blockages due to poor memory?

    Fiona Geiser

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