ВПЛИВ ЕМОЦІЙ НА КОГНІТИВНІ ПРОЦЕСИ ПІД ЧАС ВИВЧЕННЯ ІНОЗЕМНОЇ МОВИ СТУДЕНТАМИ ПЕРШОГО КУРСУ НАВЧАННЯ

Abstract

Affect and cognition are known to be highly interdependent processes which denote the person perception of the environment. Emotions accompany any human activity, direct cognitive processes, form a personality. However, a high degree of emotional experience that is not controlled by human consciousness causes partial or complete disorganization. It may harm to mental activity and declines ability to adequately perceive information and make decisions. So, we aimed to investigate the influence of affect on cognitive processes of students while studying foreign languages. Firstly, we determined two key functions of emotions: informative and motivative. It allowed us to suggest that a main motive of any human activity is to obtain pleasant emotions and avoid negative one. Therefore, it can be assumed that human behavior is governed by the will to achieve this state. Then we tried to discuss several instances of how affect influences cognition. It was studied out that hyperintensive emotions may cause significant changes in cognitive processes and have destroying force.Excessive emotional excitement can help accomplish simple tasks and block the ability to perform more complex one. Based on the results of the emotional phenomena investigation we could prove that successful mastering of foreign language depends on the emotional state of the student, because mood can affect attention, memory and perception of information. There is general agreement that anxious individuals show the worse results in cognitive processes. On the other hand, positive mood might increase the visual scope of attention, improve memorization and have effect on intrinsic motivation. Thus, the strategy for overcoming excessive nervousness and emotion regulation while studying foreign languages was proposed in this paper.