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1097.8 Comparison and priming effect of implicit and explicit self-esteem, Zhen Zhang 1 ,
Yousui Li 2 , 1 Hebei Medical University, China; 2 Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China
The study employs two procedures to measure implicit and explicit self-esteem of adolescents and
youths. Implicit self-esteem is measured with Implicit Association test (IAT), and explicit
self-esteem is measured with three scales of self-esteem. The results of two experiments indicate:
implicit self-esteem exists in adolescents and youths across gender and age; scores of IAT are not
significantly correlated with scores of self-esteem scales; implicit self-esteem is relatively stable,
but variable with current situation or mood; negative priming condition diminishes this effect
strongly, and has stronger priming effect than positive priming condition; priming condition has
little effect on explicit self-esteem.
1098 POSTER
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1098.1 An experimental study on memory resources required by short duration reproduction,
Yigui Qin, Xiting Huang, Southwest China Normal University, China
Studied whether short duration reproduction requires short-term memory resource or working
memory resource. In 2 experiments, subjects (graduate students) were demanded, during
reproducing short target duration (4.5 seconds), to maintain memory-load (Arabic numerals) and
perform non-temporal processing task (Chinese characters’ rhyme-judgement or polygon pairs’
mental rotation). The results showed that temporal intervals reproduced were lengthened
proportionally as the amount of Chinese characters / mental rotation increased, but not affected by
the change of memory load. The results suggest that short duration reproduction does not require
passive short-term memory, but requires active working memory, mainly including
verbal-phonological module and visuo-spatial module.
1098.2 Self-schemas and implicit processing information about the self, Xiaoyi Wu 1 , Bing Xu 2 ,
1 2
Northeast Normal University, China; Aironotical University of the Air force China
Self-schemas are cognitive generalizations about the self. The role of self-schemas in implicit
processing information about the self was examined by 3 studies. In these studies the participants
with schemas in a particular domain and those without the schemas were selected, and their
performance of receive, choice, and explanation on a variety of information about the self was
compared. The results indicated: implicit processing information about the self is self-organizing
process. It can be carried out automatically under the facillitation of self-schemas, and in most
situations the process is unconscious.
1098.3 Priority of commonalities and differences in similarity comparison, Yatong Wang,
China
Comparison process involves an alignment of structured representations. Our view is that it should
be the easiest both to find the commonalities between pairs of similar items and to find the
differences between pairs of dissimilar items, and that it should be easier to find the differences
between pairs of similar items than to find the differences between pairs of dissimilar items. This
prediction was tested in two experiments in which subjects listed a single difference or a single
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