Mood & Memory

Introduction ............................................... 1

Theoretical Background .................................. 1

Recall and Mood ......................................... 12

Hypotheses .............................................. 16

Method ..................................................... 17

Variables ............................................... 17

Sample .................................................. 18

Procedures .............................................. 18

Analysis ................................................ 19

Results .................................................... 23

Hypothesis Number One ................................... 23

Hypothesis Number Two ................................... 25

Hypothesis Number Three ................................. 27

Discussion ................................................. 30

References ................................................. 32

This study investigated the effects of mood on memory in relation to the ability to recall words. Three hypotheses were developed for testing in this study. These hypotheses were as follows:

1. Subjects will recall a greater number of words when encoding and recall mood states are the same.

2. Subjects will recall a greater number of words that are semantically related to the encoding mood state than words semantically unrelated to th

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stic ecphory, is recollection of the event of the target item's occurrence in the study list. Our hypothesis is that cognitive operations in the perceptual mode involve PRS without any obligatory engagement of other memory systems, whereas operations in the memory mode depend on the resources of semantic and episodic memory" (p. 303). At the physiological level of analysis, "the evidence points to distinct brain mechanisms subserving priming. At least some of the computations involved in and necessary for retrieval of episodic information are disabled when the brain has been damaged, when it has not yet developed fully or has deteriorated in old age, or when the influence of certain drugs results in impairment of explicit memory. These same computations, however, are not necessary for priming" (Tulving & Schacter, 1990, p. 304). Such a state of affairs "signals the distinction between brain systems concerned with explicit recollection of past events and primed identification of previously encountered objects·that is, between episodic memory and PRS" (p. 304). Scientific psychology initially was the study of consciousness (Kihlstrom, 1987, p. 1445). "Quite quickly, however, observations in both the laboratory and the clinic
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