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distinctive-feature judgment and distinctive-expression judgment. After fifteen minutes from the
encoding phase, the recognition test was carried out. In the retrieval series, the half of the targets
changed in their expression. A result showed that the changing of the expression decreased
recognition performance. And the distinctive-feature judgment led higher recognition rates than
the distinctive-expression judgment. Neither encoding smile faces nor encoding neutral faces
facilitated later recognition memory.
1063.113 The role of emotional events in construction of autobiographical memories in
school-aged children; are these types of memories relevant to the personality development?
Violeta Stefania Ciobanu, Romanian Psychological Association, Romania
Present research investigated the way emotional events (positive and negative ones) get stored into
the autobiographical memories (am). They form a specific structure, depending upon the previous
emotional event type, that could influence the forming and developing of the self-image. We
supposed that the cognitive structure of the am is strongly related to its emotional content; also,
that the structure of am is a determinant factor for self-image forming. Our subjects were
school-aged children (from 7 to 14 year-old) and we have both horizontal and longitudinal
approaches. We are developing now the statistical analysis of data gathered.
1063.114 Interference or facilitation in implicit memory caused by processing of interpolated
material, Chen Han 1 , Han Yuchang 2 , 1 Mianyang Normal University, China; 2 Liaoning Normal
University, China
Aim at the interpolated materials and the targets is not matching with semantic character in the
study of Martens & Wolters (2002), through the Experiment, this study approved that the
processing of interpolated material had different influence in implicit memory: When the
interpolated material is not matching with the targets in any characters, it has no influence in
targets’ implicit memory; when the interpolated material is matching with the targets in
un-semantic characters, it has interference in targets’ implicit memory; when the interpolated
material is matching with the targets in semantic characters, it has facilitation in targets’ implicit
memory.
1063.115 Magnitude of age-declines on old/new recognition tests are often comparable, Bob Uttl,
Yoko Hara, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba City, Japan
Age-related declines are usually greater on free recall than on old/new recognition tests. We
examined a possibility that larger age-declines on recall than on recognition may be artifacts of
ceiling effects caused by easy tests. We searched literature to identify studies that (a) employed
both free recall or recognition tests, (b) included at least one group of younger and one group of
older participants, and (c) reported both means and standard deviations for each condition. Our
findings indicate that recognition v. recall tests were more frequently afflicted by ceiling effects
and that ceiling effects reduce age-related differences on recognition tests.
1063.116 Motivation and episodic memory performance: A case of persistent retrieval? Leonard
Ngaosuvan, Umeå University, Sweden
Past research has produced an inconsistent pattern of results on how motivation affects memory
performance. Some studies showed no effects and others that self-efficacy and goal-setting
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