Directed forgetting effect to disease/death-related words in elder people / 中国心理卫生杂志
Chinese Mental Health Journal
;
(12): 480-484, 2017.
Article
in Chinese
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-609001
ABSTRACT
Objective:
To explore the directed forgetting ability of elder people to disease/death-related words under the conditions of the neutral and negative emotion.Methods:
Thirty-six elder people and thirty-seven young people were included in this study.The directed forgetting effects to disease/death-related words were compared by using item-method directed forgetting paradigm under the neutral and negative emotional conditions.Results:
Under the neutral and negative emotion conditions,higher recognition of to-be-remembered (TBR) than to-be-forgotten (TBF) words in elder group and younger group (Ps < 0.05).The elder group showed the weaker effect of directed forgetting than younger group[neutral emotion(0.4 ± 0.1) vs.(0.6 ± 0.1);negative emotion(0.3 ± 0.1) vs.(0.7 ± 0.04),Ps < 0.05].Under the negative emotion condition,elder people showed stronger effect of directed forgetting for sensitive words compared with control words[(0.4 ± 0.1) vs.(0.1 ± 0.1),P < 0.001].Conclusion:
The results suggest that the directed forgetting ability of elderly is weaker than that of young individuals,the ability of non-sensitive words than that with sensitive words,and the directed forgetting effect of elder people tonon-sensitive words in negative emotion is weaker than that in neutral emotion.
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WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Language:
Chinese
Journal:
Chinese Mental Health Journal
Year:
2017
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Article
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