The Influence Of Emotional Material And Affective Priming On Judgment Of Learning

Judgment of learning (JOL) refers to the judgment made by participants at the end of a learning trial considering the possibility of remembering the acquired information on a subsequent memory tests in a period of time, which is an important form of prospective meta-memory monitoring. JOL provides a basis for the subsequent meta-memory control process, such as the time allocation, whether re-studying or not, and so on. As a result, the accuracy of judgment of learning for improving learning efficiency is very important. Consequently the judgment of learning has become the most active part of meta-memory monitoring. Studies have shown that there are many factors which effect the accuracy of the JOL, including the emotional material, such as learning materials, coding strategies and learning environmental factors, however, compared with other factors, in view of the relevant research of emotional impact is still not deep enough. The study based on previous research to further explore the impact of emotional materials properties and affective priming on JOL and its accuracy.In this study, subjects are college students and three experiments are included. Experiment 1 took the form of single factor within-subject design to investigate the influence of the emotional valence of learning materials on judgment of learning. The independent variables are emotional valence of the project, divided to positive, neutral and negative three levels. Experiment 2 took the form of two-factors mixed design by 2(Valence:positive vs. Negative) ×2(Arousal:high arousal vs. low arousal, which mainly to explore the influence of emotional arousal on JOL. Experiment 3 took the form of two-factors mixed design by 2(affective priming:positive vs. Negative)×2(emotional materials:positive vs. Negative), which aimed at investigating the influence of the emotional materials properties on JOL and its accuracy under affective priming. The results are shown as follows:(1)The valence of emotional materials affect JOL and its accuracy, the JOLs and the absolute accuracy of positive and negative materials is higher than the neural materials, the relative accuracy of positive materials is significantly higher than neural ones.(2)The arousal of emotion take an important effect on JOLs and the relative accuracy, which judgment of learning and relative accuracy of high emotional arousal materials were all higher than those of low emotional arousal materials.(3)udgment of Learning is influenced by the valence and arousal, and JOL is mainly affected by the emotional arousal of materials and the regulation of emotional valence.(4)In the affective priming conditions, judgment of learning value appears the mood congruence effect. In the positive affective priming condition, JOLS of the positive materials is higher than the negative ones, and vice versa.