Individual differences in arousal and accessibility to information in memory.

From: The Journal of General Psychology | Date: October 1, 1998| Author: Dickel, Michael J.; Doty, Kimberly G.; Griffith, James; Libkuman, Terry M.; Wines, William M. | Copyright information

The authors conducted 9 experiments to test the hypothesis (S. Schwartz, 1975) that arousal influences the accessibility of information stored in memory. They investigated the relationship between arousal levels (as indexed by personality types) and the type of stimuli or cues presented during study or test. They predicted that low-arousal individuals (stable extroverted individuals in Experiments 1-3 and 5-9 and high-impulsive individuals in Experiment 4) would be influenced by semantic stim...

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