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In these experiments the influence of emotion on judgements of
recognition using an analytic and nonanalytic style of retrieval was examined.
Participants
Twelve University of Nottingham students participated in Experiment
1C (Mean age 21.50 years (SD 2.65 yrs); 5 female), and 12 in Experiment 1D
(Mean age 19.92 years (SD 1.50 yrs); 6 female).
Materials
The same materials were used as in Experiments 1A and 1B. In the
Whittlesea and Price (2001) experiments hairline crosses were used in the
analytic and nonanalytic recognition conditions to facilitate the identification
of an altered region of the photograph. Whittlesea and Price (2001)
demonstrated that it was the differing instructions, and not the hairlines, that
were responsible for inducing analytic recognition. Therefore, for ease of
comparison of results across experiments, hairline crosses were not used in this
experiment.
Procedure
The procedure was identical to that of Experiment 1A, except for the
different instructions given to participants during the test phase. In Experiment
1C (analytic recognition) participants were told that, from each pair, both
photos had been presented previously but one of the photos had been altered
from its previous presentation. They should select the photo they thought had
been altered (by pressing ‘1’ or ‘9’), and then point and ‘click’ with the mouse
cursor in the region of the photo which they thought had been altered.
Therefore, the correct answer was the photograph which they thought was
different from the initial presentation. Relative to the other experiments
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