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ackground they had seen in the study phase with three objects presented
beneath. Each object had been shown previously to participants during the
study phase. In each triad of objects there was one negative, one neutral and
one positive object. Participants had to indicate by key press which object had
been presented with that background in the study phase of the experiment.
Each triad of objects was presented to participants three times during this
memory test. Participants were shown all 48 backgrounds that they had seen
previously in the study phase.
At the debrief 15 participants confirmed that the memory test was a
surprise, 3 participants were not sure. Overall memory performance was
comparable between these two groups.
Section 2.3. Results
Memory Data
Analysis of the memory data from Experiment 8 was carried out in the
same way as for experiment 7 (see Table 5.1). (For statistical analysis of the
responses given to different items see Appendix 5.1.) The influence of emotion
on specific and general recognition was examined by conducting separate
repeated measures ANOVAs with the factors scene component (object,
background) and emotion (negative, neutral, positive) (See Figure 5.1).
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