An Emotional Stroop, Anxiety, Personality, & Memory

Date of Award

2006

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Social Sciences

First Advisor

Ryan, Kimberly

Keywords

Stroop, Memory, Anxiety

Area of Concentration

Psychology

Abstract

The author utilized an emotional Stroop task, the STAI, and NEO personality inventory to identify relations between level and type of anxiety and/or personality characteristics on amount of interference (observed through latency in response times) and accuracy on a memory task (correct words recalled and fewer words created). A sample of 34 undergraduate students was administered three categories of words: (a) positive emotional valence, (b) negative emotional valence, and (c) neutral words. Overall, both negative and positive emotional words produced larger amounts of latency than neutral words. Finally, neither the emotionality of words, level of anxiety, nor personality characteristics influenced memory task performance to a significant degree.

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