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The influence of emotion on immediate and delayed retention: Levinger & Clark reconsidered
Author(s) -
Parkin Alan J.,
Lewinsohn Joan,
Folkard Simon
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1982.tb01821.x
Subject(s) - psychology , forgetting , recall , arousal , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , audiology , social psychology , medicine
The experiment reported here examines the effect of emotion on the recall of self‐generated paired associates under conditions of both immediate and delayed retention. The paradigm used was that of Levinger & Clark (1961). The results showed that, with immediate retention, the recall of associates to emotional stimuli was significantly lower than that made to neutral stimuli whilst with delayed retention associations to emotional stimuli were better recalled. It is concluded that the pattern of forgetting shown in the current study can be explained in terms of the known interaction between input arousal and retention interval and, as such, the data do not support the existence of any specific emotional mechanism within the memory system.