The Emotional Impact On The Source Memory

The effect of emotion on memory has increasingly received attention fromcognitive psychologists over the past several decades. I conducted three experimentsto investigate effect of emotion on item and source memory.In Experiment1, participants learned positive and negative abject with nice faceteacher or with strict face teacher. Following the learning, they took a test forrecognition and source memory. In experiment2, participants were divided intothree groups. We used three kinds of emotion pictures (positive, neutral, negative) toarouse different emotions. After watching them participant learned negative positiveand negative abject with wearing glasses or without wearing glasses.Following thelearning, they took a test for recognition and source memory. In experiment3,participants learned neural abject with nice face teacher or with strict face teacher.Following the learning, they watched two kinds of pictures (positive or negative) toarouse different emotions. After they watched pictures, they took a test forrecognition and source memory.The major findings include: source memory with nice teachers has enhancedmemory; recognitions of negative words are better the recognition of positive words.Both item memory and source memory of positives words were enhances withpositive emotion. Both item memory and source memory of negative words wereenhances with negative emotion. That means the source memory has “moodcongruent effect” In retrieval period, the positive emotion enhances source memory,but neither nice teacher nor strict teacher effect source memory. The above findingshave theoretical significance for the establishment of the relationship betweenemotion and memory consolidation, and have practical implications for improvingstudents’ memory consolidation in educational settings.