Effects of Different Moods on Prospective Memory

此次研究主要采用双实验的研究范式，设计两个实验来观察情绪对时间性前瞻记忆和事件性前瞻记忆的影响。结果发现，不管是时间性前瞻记忆还是记忆性前瞻记忆，情绪所带来的影响都不大，就进行中的任务的反应时来看，中性条件和消极条件下的被试的反应显著快于积极情绪条件下的被试；在事件性前瞻记忆中，则相反，并且消极情绪的作用产生的反应和中性情绪产生的反应并没有太大差别。就前瞻任务的正确性而言，三类情绪条件下的被试反应都是不明显的。This study focused on a two-experiment research paradigm, designing two experiments to observe the effects of emotion on temporal prospective memory and event prospective memory. It was found that the effects of emotion were small in both temporal and prospective memory, and that in terms of response time to the ongoing task, subjects in the neutral and negative conditions responded significantly faster than those in the positive emotion condition; the opposite was true in event prospective memory, and the effects of negative emotion did not produce responses that were much different from those produced by neutral emotion. As far as the correctness of the prospective task was concerned, the responses of subjects in all three types of emotional conditions were insignificant.