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the performance of any subsequent task, or whether there is something in
particular about the RKG task which affects emotion’s influence on memory.
We are proposing that the processing style with which information from
memory is retrieved to make a recognition judgement will be affected by the
knowledge that a subsequent judgement will be required. Specifically, we
propose that a judgement such as Remember/Know/Guess has more specific
requirements than a judgement of recognition, we argue that it would be most
efficient to base the recognition and RKG judgement on the same information
and so avoid the need to retrieve the same information from memory twice.
Therefore, we argue the judgement of recognition and RKG will be made on
the basis of the same piece of information that has been retrieved from
memory. In this way, we argue that if the RKG judgement requires an
analytical style of processing, this will also be used with the recognition
judgement. Specifically, we predict that for straightforward recognition and
recognition followed by an RKG response there will be the same pattern of
results as in Experiments 1 and 2; that is a positive emotional enhancement of
recognition in the former and no emotional enhancement in the latter. When
recognition is followed by a confidence judgement we predict that, in line with
previous research (e.g. Dahl et al., 2006) there will be emotional enhancement
of recognition memory, and that this will be reflected in the ratings of
confidence given.
Section 1.2. Method
Design
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