Emotion Congruence And Its Effects On Memory Encoding And Extraction

In recent years，the scholars mainly in the study of mood congruent memory indepression or anxiety individual emotional state of its explicit and implicit memory.As we all know, memory can be divided into coding and extraction process ofinteraction of two independent and normal individuals emotional consistency ofthese two processes is the existence of asymmetric? In this study, the processdissociation paradigm memory processes through two experiments investigatedcollege students, mood-congruent memory and its mechanism.Experiment I:3(emotional state: positive emotions, neutral emotions andnegative emotions)×3(emotional valence words: positive words, neutral words andnegative words) repeating a factor experimental design. Selected90college studentswere tested, students explore the existence of implicit memory consistencyemotional effect. The results showed: positive emotions group positive scores weresignificantly higher than the negative points, while negative emotions group negativepoints was significantly higher than its positive points; in a positive state, thedifferent subjects on positive word conscious extraction results and unconsciousextraction performed significantly better than the negative and neutral words, in anegative state, were tested negative word for conscious and unconscious extractextract scores were significantly higher scores on the positive and neutral words.Experiment II: The three (group: encoding additional emotional group,extracting additional emotional group and no additional emotional group)×3(emotional state: positive emotions, neutral emotions and negative emotions)×3(emotional valence words: positive words, neutral words and negative words)hybrid design. Select180students were tested, and further separation processingmemory encoding and retrieval phase, while the corresponding additional emotionalcontent, study sustained and stable emotional state effects on memory at differentstages. The results showed that: in the coding phase of additional emotional content,positive emotional state of the subjects consciously extraction performance declined,and negative and neutral emotional memory performance under no difference;attached at the extraction stage emotional content, positive emotional states andnegative emotions status of the subjects unconscious extracted scores significantlyhigher than without additional emotional group. According to the above experimental results, the following conclusions canbe drawn:(1) Students explicit memory and implicit memory effects of emotionalconsistency.(2) Due to the impact of the additional emotional content of memory encodingand extraction stage can detect emotional consistency effect of different sizes.(3) In the encoding and retrieval stages additional emotional content ofexternal asymmetric effect of explicit memory and implicit memory. Specificfeatures: additional emotional content of the coding phase hindered explicit memory,and implicit memory on the extraction stage additional sensitive to the emotionalcontent of a role in promoting.