Enhancing retention of information through postretrieval negatively arousing stimuli.

• Main Author: Lim, Yvonne ShiYing.
• Other Authors: Michael Donald Patterson
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52506
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Many studies have shown how emotions aid or impair memory during the encoding stage. Fewer studies have focused on this relationship during retrieval. This paper explores how inducing emotional arousal following retrieval affects performance on cued recall and recognition tests. Specifically, this s...