Let the Past Rest: The Influence of Effortful Control on Directed Forgetting of Explicit and Implicit Memories
These authors contributed equally.
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.422How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Directed forgetting; Effortful control; Implicit memory; Explicit memory
- Abstract
The ability of directed forgetting is closely related to the individuals’ level of effortful control. This study aims to investigate the effect effortful control has on the level of directed forgetting. Forty-nine Chinese participants of ages between 18 and 25 were invited to this study. Participants were selected according to their level of effortful control, and they were divided into four groups, with each group doing different memory tests. Afterward, they were presented with Chinese characters that are less common, followed by an interference task. In the next stage, participants were tested with a recognition task or perceptual identification task. In explicit memory, there was an interaction effect between cues and participants’ performances in memory tasks (p < 0.05), while in implicit memory, no such effect was observed (p > 0.05). The findings suggest that although directed forgetting exists in both explicit and implicit memory, the level of effortful control does not affect implicit memory, and in explicit memory, individuals with a higher level of effortful control show the better ability of directed forgetting This study provides evidence that there is a relationship between temperament and memory.
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- © 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
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- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Yang Yang AU - Lixing Yin AU - Jinghan You AU - Zichen Zhang PY - 2021 DA - 2021/12/24 TI - Let the Past Rest: The Influence of Effortful Control on Directed Forgetting of Explicit and Implicit Memories BT - Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 2434 EP - 2440 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211220.422 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.422 ID - Yang2021 ER -