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hatred

singer. pathway. honest. service. river. marker. killing. murder. hurt. destroy. kicking. rapist. fight. table. despair. copy. business. book. hatred. wounded. psychlotron.org.uk. Emotional Influences on Memory.

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hatred

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  1. singer pathway honest service river marker killing murder hurt destroy kicking rapist fight table despair copy business book hatred wounded psychlotron.org.uk

  2. Emotional Influences on Memory • Emotional input may help or hinder our ability to recall events clearly • Repression – ‘deliberate’ forgetting to reduce emotional pain • Flashbulb memories – ‘photographic’ recall of shocking & personally meaningful events psychlotron.org.uk

  3. Conscious The small amount of mental activity we know about. Preconscious Things we could be aware of if we wanted or tried. Unconscious. Things we are unaware and can not become aware of. Repression pain psychlotron.org.uk

  4. Levinger & Clark (1961) • PPs shown two intermixed wordlists • Negative emotional connotations • Neutral • Compared recall for the two types of word • What does the theory of repression suggest should happen? psychlotron.org.uk

  5. Evaluation • Some experimental support (e.g. Levinger & Clark, 1961; Klein, 1972) • Unreliable results • Methodological flaws • Case study evidence (clinical & criminal cases) • Difficult to validate • Impossible to distinguish inability from unwillingness to recall psychlotron.org.uk

  6. Evaluation • Some impressive isolated cases, but evidence is lacking for repression as an important process psychlotron.org.uk

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