Positive mood and working memory in young preschool children.

The role of positive mood in working memory was studied in children at two ages (3 and 4 years) using the Self-Ordered Pointing Test (SOPT) in which children were required to point to a new picture stimulus in a set on each presentation without repeating the same picture. Half the children were ind...

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Main Author: Tang, Mavis Yi Wen.
Other Authors: Qu Li
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2009
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-167452019-12-10T12:57:18Z Positive mood and working memory in young preschool children. Tang, Mavis Yi Wen. Qu Li School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Applied psychology The role of positive mood in working memory was studied in children at two ages (3 and 4 years) using the Self-Ordered Pointing Test (SOPT) in which children were required to point to a new picture stimulus in a set on each presentation without repeating the same picture. Half the children were induced with positive mood, and half was induced with neutral mood. Positive mood impaired children’s SOPT accuracy, particularly for the 4-year-olds. However, positive mood did not significantly affect children’s working memory span. These findings suggested that positive mood elicits an additional load on underlying executive processes (inhibition) in the service of working memory, decreasing cognitive resource capacity to devote to the task at hand. Bachelor of Arts 2009-05-28T03:17:07Z 2009-05-28T03:17:07Z 2009 2009 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/16745 en Nanyang Technological University 36 p. application/pdf
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Tang, Mavis Yi Wen.
Positive mood and working memory in young preschool children.
description The role of positive mood in working memory was studied in children at two ages (3 and 4 years) using the Self-Ordered Pointing Test (SOPT) in which children were required to point to a new picture stimulus in a set on each presentation without repeating the same picture. Half the children were induced with positive mood, and half was induced with neutral mood. Positive mood impaired children’s SOPT accuracy, particularly for the 4-year-olds. However, positive mood did not significantly affect children’s working memory span. These findings suggested that positive mood elicits an additional load on underlying executive processes (inhibition) in the service of working memory, decreasing cognitive resource capacity to devote to the task at hand.
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title Positive mood and working memory in young preschool children.
title_short Positive mood and working memory in young preschool children.
title_full Positive mood and working memory in young preschool children.
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