Experimental Studies On Emotional Memory Of Repressors

The depression is a depressive personality individual collectively, in the early of1870s, psychologists Weinberger put forward the concept of depressive personality, hethought repressive personality is the main characters of the group who avoid threat ornegative information, and in1990he explicitly defined the repressors as low traitanxiety and high defense, and the non-repressors is the person that do not havedepressive personality characteristics. Nearly30years the western psychology getsmore and more interested in repressor. In the memory of the depressive experiments,many researchers have found that repressor has processing bias that they always avoidthreatened or negative information, and it’s hard for them to remember the negativeinformation, or compared to the non-repressors they speaker out less negativeinformation. In addition, some researchers think that the results, the repressors doesnot have so-called negative avoid processing mechanism. Also, for the withdrawal ofthe depression the internal mechanism of processing, and psychologists are putforward its own views, some researchers think that the depressive withdrawal ofprocessing occurred in the memory of the encoding phase, some researchers think thathappened in extraction phase, and some researchers think that happens both codingphase also happens in extraction phase.The purpose of this research is, first to prove the repressors whether have avoidantprocessing or not under a pressure test, and whether there was a significant differencebetween repressors and non-repressors in the freedom of recall negative words. Thesecond is to explore the repressors whether have significant difference in the lexicalidentification under a pressure test, and with repressors himself to controlling the timeof memory, whether there are significant differences in encoding processing, and toexplore whether there is a difference of recalled memories. The first experiment isdouble-stimulus condition of dot probe task and remembering. When the experimentends there is a distraction test, let subjects free recall the words and write down. Thesecond experiment is double-experiment condition of lexical identification andremembering, subjects processing the right key once see the right words, and thenhave a blank page records times that subjects encoding words just saw, we discussesthe repressors and non-repressors have significantly differences or not in the encodingprocessing to negative emotional words, and compare whether there is significantly different in recalled memories.The results of this thesis research is,(1) in the first experiment, double-stimuluscondition of dot probe task and remembering, there is no significantly differences inthe reactions detection of dot probe task between repressor and non-repressors, andthe personality types and the emotional words also not significantly differences, in theanalysis of the free recall task, we found that personality types and lexical maineffects have no significant differences interaction.(2) In the second experiment,double-experiment condition of lexical identification and remembering, we foundthere are no significantly differences in lexical identification and free recalled. Boththe personality types and the lexical and there interaction are not significant. Therepressors are not use avoidant processing to negative words, instead, repressors spenta significantly more time to encoding negative word than neuter gender phrase. In thefree recall task, there is no significantly different between repressor andnon-repressors of recalled the negative words and positive word and neuter genderphrase.