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  1. Attention span remains unaltered by any kind of emotions
  2. Emotions and logical thinking are independent of each other
  3. Emotions facilitate the encoding and retrieval of memories
  4. Memory is not associated with positive or negative emotions
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Option 3 : Emotions facilitate the encoding and retrieval of memories

Let's understand Cognition and Emotion:

  • Cognition is a term referring to the mental processes involved in gaining knowledge and comprehension. These cognitive processes include thinking, knowing, remembering, judging, and problem-solving.
  • Emotion is an affective state of consciousness in which joy, sorrow, fear, hate, or the like, is experienced, as distinguished from cognitive and volitional states of consciousness.  Emotion can be positive or negative and it affects our cognition in that way. 

  • Emotions facilitate the encoding and retrieval of memories as cognition and emotions are interrelated and both effects each other.
  • Cognition and Emotion interact to determine ongoing behaviors. Our cognition, i.e. our perceptions, memories, and interpretations are essential ingredients of emotions. So the process of emotion starts with cognition.
  • If pressures due to stress continue, one may suffer from mental overload. This suffering from a high level of stress can rapidly cause individuals to lose their ability to encode and retrieve memories and to make sound decisions.

Hence, we can conclude that emotions facilitate the encoding and retrieval of memories is a correct statement about emotion and cognition.

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