Abstract
Attention Readers and Researchers "PDF version of this article has been modified two to three times due to problems with one figure and with missing words in the title. The final version of the PDF was last updated on September 27, 2014. We apologise for the inconvenience this might cause."AbstractThe role of emotion in memory recollection has been an arguable issue for a decade. Episodic memory is very triggering in our day to day life and so as our affective states. Present study was conducted to see whether positive, negative and neutral emotional states (affective states) have any effect in recollecting emotion congruent or incongruent episodic memory. Words of positive, negative, or neutral were presented to the participants either in positive, negative, or neutral mood and immediate recall was used in this present experiment. It was hypothesized that congruent mood would enhance better episodic memory recollection than incongruent mood. A total of 36 adult healthy participants were selected for this experiment following an incidental sampling techniques and they were divided into two contrasting groups namely, congruent and incongruent following purely on the basis of chance. Phases of stimulus presentations were counterbalanced. Different images were used to manipulate affective states of the respondents, and different positive (18 words), negative (18 words) and neutral (18 words) words were used as stimulus. Results were analyzed using paired t test. Results revealed that negative mood enhance negative word retrieval (t = 2.159, p <0.05) but not positive words. Findings were discussed in the light of current theories of episodic memory recollection. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jbayr.v2i1.20536 Journal of the Bangladesh Association of Young Researchers (JBAYR): Vol.2(1), 2012 & 2013: 1-8
Highlights
Mood states consume a lion share of our everyday phenomenon which leaves us ample of opportunities to learn and to retrieve those learning to be a functional creature in the globe
As it is manifested that mood exerts strong influences on different aspects of life, memory scientists made a clear distinction between mood congruent memory and mood dependent memory
It was hypothesized that congruent mood would enhance better episodic memory recollection than incongruent mood
Summary
Mood states consume a lion share of our everyday phenomenon which leaves us ample of opportunities to learn and to retrieve those learning to be a functional creature in the globe. Participants may preferred to categorize the same event as unpleasant when they were depressed but not in the same way when they were not depressed Their analysis and conclusion put forward another speculation that emotional state or mood might have any effect on memory accessibility and categorization tendency. Whereas current study used varieties of pictures to induce different moods and it was observed that the pictures were able to manipulate the emotional state or mood of the participant Their experiment only manipulated depression and no depression mood whereas the present study manipulated positive, negative and neutral mood in encoding materials and recollecting memory. As a result aim of the present experiment was to investigate the effect of different emotional state in recollecting episodic memory having verbal materials with different valances. It was hypothesized that congruent mood (positive emotional state with positive word, negative emotional state with negative words, or viceversa) would enhance better episodic memory recollection than incongruent mood (positive emotional state but negative word or vice-versa)
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