积极情绪背景对词语记忆的影响

Effects of Emotionally Positive Context on Memory for Words

摘要: 本研究采用学习－测验范式，以大学生为被试，通过两个实验考察了不同趋近强度的积极情绪背景材料对词语记忆的影响。研究表明，当使用情绪图片作为学习词语时的背景材料时，高趋近积极情绪背景(美食图片背景)可能比低趋近积极情绪背景(鲜花图片背景)更不利于学习者的编码加工，从而影响其再认表现。当使用真正的鲜花或食物作为学习和记忆测试过程中的背景材料时，低趋近的鲜花背景更可能干扰被试的再认反应。

Abstract: Selecting undergraduates as participants, the present study examined the effects of low versus high approach-motivated positive affect on memory of words by employing the study-test para-digm. The results showed that, when emotional pictures were as context during learning, high approach-motivated positive affect pictures (delicious food pictures) were more likely to interfere with the encoding process of words and thus impaired recognition performance as compared to low approach-motivated positive affect pictures (flower pictures); when real flowers or delicious foods were as context during learning and test, low approach-motivated flower background was more likely to interfere with participants’ recognition as compared to high approach-motivated food background and neutral background.