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Independent effects of word concreteness and word valence on immediate serial recall |
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| Authors: | Chi-Shing Tse Jeanette Altarriba |
| Institution: | 1. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China;2. University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, New York, USA
Contribution: Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing |
| Abstract: | The present study examined the roles of word concreteness and word valence in the immediate serial recall task. Emotion words (e.g. happy) were used to investigate these effects. Participants completed study-test trials with 7-item study lists consisting of positive or negative words with either high or low concreteness (Experiments 1 and 2) and neutral (i.e. non-emotion) words with either high or low concreteness (Experiment 2). In serial recall performance, we replicated the typical item concreteness effect (concrete words are better recalled than abstract words) and obtained an item valence effect (positive/neutral words are better recalled than negative words). However, there was no concreteness × valence interaction. We conclude that both word valence and word concreteness independently contribute to the serial order retention of emotion words in the immediate serial recall task. |
| Keywords: | emotion item redintegration serial recall word concreteness word valence |