Most academics agree that emotions and moods are related but distinct phenomena. The present study assessed emotion-mood distinctions among a non-academic population and compared these views with distinctions proposed in the literature. Content analysis of responses from 106 participants identified 16 themes, with cause (65% of respondents), duration (40%), control (25%), experience (15%), and consequences (14%) the most frequently cited distinctions. Among 65 contributions to the academic literature, eight themes were proposed, with duration (62% of authors), intentionality (41%), cause (31percnt;), (...) consequences (31%), and function (18%) the most frequently cited. When the eight themes cited by both academics and non-academics were rank ordered, approximately 60% overlap in opinion was evident. A data-derived summary of emotion-mood distinctions is provided. These data should prove useful to investigators interested in developing a clearer scientific distinction between emotion and mood than is currently available. (shrink)

D. L. Schacter and E. Tulving (1994) argued for distinctions among 5 major memory systems: working memory, semantic memory, episodic memory, the perceptual representation system (PRS), and procedural memory. This chapter considers whether and in what way recent neuroimaging research has enhanced or changed the understanding of each of the 5 major systems that had been identified on cognitive and neuropsychological grounds by Schacter and Tulving. The logic and criteria introduced by Schacter and Tulving for identifying memory systems are first (...) reviewed briefly. The neuroimaging evidence that bears on an understanding of working memory, semantic memory, episodic memory, PRS, and procedural memory is then considered and commented on. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved). (shrink)