The Attention And Memory Bias Of College Students With Different Rejection Sensitivity For Social Rejection Words

Purpose:researching and comparing the attention and memory of the rejection words of the undergraduateswho have the trait of high and low rejection sensitivity.Research Tool:Epidater 2.0 and Spss21 software were adopted to collect and analyze data,at the same time,Doctor Rebacca’s scale of the tendency to Except Rejection Scale was used for testing.Methods: Experiment one step: the emotion stroop paradigm was adopted,and the participants were asked to name different titer(positive,rejection,and the neutral)of the color word.Experiment three step: the participants were asked to recognize the vocabulary presented in emotion stroop period.Resultsshow that there are no significant differences in the scores of rejection sensitivity among college students of different genders,places of origin and grades;compared with the college students with low rejection sensitivity,students with high rejection sensitivity were disturbed by the lexical meaning,and their speed was slow in the emotional stroop task on color word naming.Recognition accuracy of rejecting and positive words are higher than the recognition accuracy of other parts of speech in the recognition stage.Research conclusion.(1)The trait of rejection sensitivity is not influenced by demographic varibles such as gender,source of place and grade;(2)the college students with low rejection sensitivity preferpositive words that was presented in the experiment,and the college students with high sensitivityhave attention bias on rejecting words in surrounding environment.(3)the college students with high or high rejection sensitivity all have memory bias on the positive words,and the college students with high rejection sensitivity have memory bias for rejection words.