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Trait Anxiety And Emotional Word Processing S Ye O Ement

Posted on:2015-01-29Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L XuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2285330431460279Subject:Development and educational psychology
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Emotinal information is important for human survival and development.With the development of cognitive neuroscience, more and more research has been devoted to explore the relationship of attention and emotion. This paper reviews the four major theories about the emotional attention bias, namely attention to composition theory and the theory of attentional resources, PDP models and the automatically alert model, as well as their different emphases and research tendencies. Effects of emotional information processing aspects of vocabulary, mostly from the view points of behavioral and EEG analysis. However, eye tracking technology is a good kind of ecological validity research methods, but has not been widely used in this field. Meanwhile, most of the research has been expressed in the form of a single two-word rendering the experimental material, from the normal natural reading situations. In addition, the individual’s mood and personality factors the processing of emotional information also tend to have some impact. Therefore, this paper discusses the level of anxiety group, in the context of Chinese reading, Vocabulary emotional information processing time impact on the process.In this study,2(anxiety group:high-anxiety, low-anxiety)*3(emotional word: positive, negative, neutral)*2(word frequency:high-frequency, low-frequency) of three mixed design. Variable between test anxiety group was divided into high and low anxiety groups. Emotional words in the variables were tested, including three levels, namely, positive words, negative words and neutral words. Words frequency for the variables were tested, including two levels, namely, high-frequency and low-frequency words. Experiments uses eye tracking technology that allows experimental subjects read statements, tracking record eye movements were tested, not only analyzes the early indicators and analysis of the late indicators, a more comprehensive and accurate analysis of the attention processing of emotional information.Under the conditions of this study, the following conclusions: (1)Compared with the low-anxiety group, the attention of the high anxiety group control is damaged. In particular, regardless of the emotional and non-emotional vocabulary words, high anxiety group’s watching time were longer than the low-anxiety goup.(2)In the early stages of processing, whether high or low anxiety group, all show the common emotional bias. In particular, the test groups were more likely to detect emotional information.(3)In the later stages of lexical processing, compared to positive emotion, subjects are mor susceptible populations negative emotions, negative word to gaze longer.
Keywords/Search Tags:Anxiety, Word frequency, Reading, Eye movement, Word processing
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