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Chapter 3. Methodologies to investigate the influence of emotion on<br />

memory<br />

Experimental design and methodology can have an impact on the<br />

relationship uncovered between different cognitive processes, as highlighted in<br />

Chapter 2. In the experiments reported in Chapter 2 an emotional influence was<br />

only found when recognition was measured by certain tasks. It is important to<br />

establish whether these effects reflect generalisable differences in cognitive<br />

processing or whether they are specific to the experimental design. In this<br />

chapter the impact of different methodologies to assess memory and induce<br />

emotion are investigated.<br />

Section 1. Experiment 3: Do Remember/Know/Guess judgements change<br />

the process of retrieval and block the emotional enhancement seen with a<br />

Section 1.1. Introduction<br />

simple test of recognition memory?<br />

An investigation of recognition memory and emotion in Experiment 2<br />

found that asking participants to follow recognition with a<br />

Remember/Know/Guess judgement blocked the emotional enhancement of<br />

recognition memory that was seen when participants were not required to make<br />

any additional judgements. With a simple recognition judgement we found a<br />

significant improvement of recognition memory for positive photographs,<br />

when compared to neutral and negative photographs. Following a RKG<br />

judgement there was evidence of recognition memory, but no difference in<br />

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