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Interactive effects of noise and neuroticism on recall from semantic memory
Author(s) -
WRIGHT JOHAN,
VAURAS MARJA
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1980.tb00346.x
Subject(s) - neuroticism , psychology , recall , extraversion and introversion , noise (video) , cognitive psychology , set (abstract data type) , uncorrelated , noise effects , audiology , social psychology , personality , big five personality traits , artificial intelligence , statistics , medicine , mathematics , computer science , image (mathematics) , programming language , hearing loss
Subjects recalled names of countries during 8 or 5 min. (Experiments 1 and 2) or performed a set of brief (40 sec) tasks recalling items from semantic or factual memory (Experiment 3), either in silence or in intermittent white noise (95 dB (A)). Noise interfered consistently with the performance of “neurotic” subjects (i.e., subjects scoring above the median on the EPI scale of neuroticism) but had little effect on that of “stable” ones. Performance was not significantly related to extraversion, nor to self‐rated activation, and it was uncorrelated with neuroticism in the no‐noise condition. An interpretation of the results emphasizing the distracting effects of noise is discussed.