Attention and Memory Bias in Highly Trait-Anxious Senior High School Students to Negative Information

Abstract

Abstract: The research aim at comparing the study of high and low trait anxiety of senior high school students about the attention and memory mode to negative information. Experiment 1 used emotional Stroop paradigm, subjects were asked to name the different valence(positive, negative)of color words; Experiment 2 required the subjects to recall the vocabularies which exists in the experiment about the emotional Stroop′s task. The results show that compared with the low trait anxiety of senior high school students, high school students suffered the interference of high trait anxiety of lexical meaning of color words, and the speed of named color also became slower in emotional Stroop task; After the Stroop′s emotional task, the amounts of recalling the negative words is more than positive words significantly. In conclusion, the high school students with high trait anxiety have memory bias on environmental negative information, and attention bias to all kinds of emotional information(positive or negative)also existed.

Key words: trait anxiety, senior high school students, attention, memory.

摘要： 研究比较高、低特质焦虑高中生对消极信息的注意和记忆模式。实验一采用情绪Stroop范式，让被试命名不同效价（积极、消极）的颜色词；实验二命被试回忆实验一情绪Stroop任务中出现过的词汇。结果表明，与低特质焦虑高中生相比，高特质焦虑高中生受词汇意义的干扰，在情绪Stroop任务中对颜色词命名速度减缓；在情绪Stroop任务后对消极词的回忆量显著多于对积极词的回忆量。研究推论，高特质焦虑高中生对环境中的消极信息存在记忆偏向，对环境中的任何情绪信息（积极或消极）均存在注意偏向。

关键词: 特质焦虑, 高中生, 注意, 记忆。

CLC Number:

B844.2

Shi Guoxing, Zhao Haidi. Attention and Memory Bias in Highly Trait-Anxious Senior High School Students to Negative Information[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2015, 13(4): 495-499.

石国兴, 赵海第. 高特质焦虑高中生对消极信息的注意和记忆偏向[J]. 心理与行为研究, 2015, 13(4): 495-499.

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