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Section 2. Experiment 4: What is an effective paradigm for studying
Section 2.1. Introduction
emotion’s effects on memory?
In Experiment 3 the influence of emotion on the retrieval of memories
was considered by comparing performance on recognition and subsequent
judgements of confidence or Remember/Know/Guess. In this experiment we
further investigate the influence of recognition task on emotional enhancement
of memory by using a new experimental paradigm with a new set of
experimental stimuli. This experiment aims to provide an alternative
examination of how retrieval of memories may be affected by the task used. In
this introduction there will first be a review of the contribution that research
with the Remember/Know paradigm has made to the investigation of
recognition memory and emotion’s influence on recognition memory. Some of
this material was briefly reviewed in Chapter 2 but will be considered in more
detail here. Then we will consider the benefits of a different paradigm to
examine recognition memory and the further insights it may reveal into the
influence of emotion on recognition memory. Lastly, we will explore how
performance on a Remember/Know/New task may specifically relate to
performance with a paradigm which requires participants to discriminate
between Same/Similar/New items.
The Remember/Know paradigm and recognition memory
The Remember/Know paradigm has been used in many experimental
designs for many different purposes (for a review see Dunn, 2004). The
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