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In chapter 3 I addressed two research questions. Firstly, I extended the
research of chapter 2 by designing a within participants version of the between
participants paradigm which had been used to examine retrieval strategies.
Unfortunately the experimental paradigm did not successfully translate into a
within participants design, however, the experiments did suggest that there may
be interesting implications of using different methodologies to investigate the
effects of emotion on memory. In the next phase of research in this chapter I
continued the exploration of different paradigms. Specifically, I compared the
pattern of results from the well-know Remember/Know/New paradigm
(Tulving, 1985) with the more recently developed Same/Similar/New paradigm
which has been used to demonstrate some interesting effects with emotion and
memory (e.g. Kensinger, Garoff-Eaton, & Schacter, 2006). A memory
advantage for negative emotional stimuli was found in both paradigms (see
Figure 6.2). The results from the Same/Similar/New paradigm appeared more
straightforward to interpret in the context of this type of experiment with the
advantage of clear and well-defined criteria by which participants chose their
responses. Therefore, I continued with this experimental paradigm in the
investigation of cognitive processes underlying the influence of emotion on
memory.
Figure 6.2 Summary of findings from Chapter 3
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