The Effect Of Gender Combination On Social Sharing Retrieval-induced Forgettin

In the memory task,extracting part of the memory material will lead to the reduction of the memory performance of other memory materials related to it,which is called retrieval-induced forgetting(RIF).In a social memory group composed of two or more members,when members are performing interactive extraction tasks,the speaker selectively extracts part of the material,resulting in the listener’s forgetting of other memory materials related to it.This phenomenon is known as socially shared retrieval-induced forgetting(SS-RIF).However,the speaker’s forgetting is inevitable,and the listener’s forgetting is "selective",which is related to whether the listener can "implicitly" retrieve with the speaker.Only when the listener is driven by a strong motivation in the process of speaker retrieval can they retrieve together with the speaker,and then produce the phenomenon of SS-RIF.In the process of social interaction,people have strong relational motives,which drives people to share knowledge with group members from the same group.The gender of group members can stimulate different levels of relational motives,thus affecting knowledge sharing within the group.Therefore,this study,based on the perspective of relational motives,explores the effects of SS-RIF of listeners in social interaction groups with different gender combinations,and the influence of speaker gender factors on the degree of listeners’ forgetting.This study is divided into two parts,study one and study two.The first study is divided into experiment 1 and experiment 2.In experiment 1,50 college students were selected as listeners,and different gender combinations were formed with false subjects to explore the performance of SS-RIF in different gender combinations.Adopt 2(speaker gender: male,female)× 2(listener gender:male,female)× 4(item type: Rp+,Rp-,Nrp+,Nrp-)mixed-factorial design.The results showed that both the same-sex group and the heterosexual group occurs SS-RIF.When the male is the listener,whether the speaker is male or female,this phenomenon does not occur.However,this phenomenon occurs when the listener is female,whether the speaker is male or female.This shows that different gender strangers can stimulate the relational motives of female listeners,but not male listeners.Because the male listener in experiment 1 did not appear the phenomenon of SS-RIF in front of the unfamiliar speaker.Therefore,Experiment 2 is based on Experiment 1,manipulating the familiarity among the group members to explore whether the familiarity affects the memory performance of male listeners.Adopt 2(Group:unfamiliar group,familiar group)× 2(speaker gender: male,female)× 4(item type: Rp+,Rp-,Nrp+,Nrp-)mixed-factorial design.The results show that no matter whether the speaker is male or female,in the familiar relationship,male listeners will appear SS-RIF.In the second study,primary and middle school students in grades 4,6 and 8 before and after the maturity of sexual awareness were selected as subjects to explore the influence of speakers of different genders on the degree of SS-RIF,that is,whether there is gender facilitation or gender inhibition and its development characteristics.Use 3(grades: 4,6,8)× 2(Group: same-sex group,heterosexual group)× 4(item type: Rp+,Rp-,Nrp+,Nrp-)mixed-factorial design.The result showed that there was no significant difference between the level of forgetting of heterosexual listeners in grades 4,6 and 8 and that of same-sex listeners.There was no gender facilitation effect in the memory task of primary and secondary school students,and there was no difference in the relational motives caused by different heterosexual speakers.Based on the theory of relational motives,this study explored the memory characteristics of listeners in different gender combinations of social interaction groups.The main conclusions are as follows: In different gender combinations,female listeners all experienced socially shared retrieval-induced forgetting;Men only experienced this phenomenon in the familiar group.In addition,there is no gender facilitation effect in social shared retrieval induced forgetting.