Natural forgetters' episode memory and personality characteristics
- VernacularTitle:日常健忘者的情景记忆与人格特征
- Author:
Shengtao WU
;
Chan ZHOU
;
Jianxin ZHANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Episode memory;
Enactment effect;
Personality;
Natural forgetters
- From:Chinese Journal of Behavioral Medicine and Brain Science
2008;17(5):432-434
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To explore the natural forgetters' episode memory and personality characteristics.Methods Situational Self-Awareness Scale(SSAS),Russell Loneliness Scale and Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory(ZTPI)are used upon 127 natural forgetters and subjects of control group.in which 90 subjects participate tions,natural forgetters performance worse than subjects of control group(t=1.76 one-tail,P＜0.05),but subjects getters score lower in the SSAS and the future subscale of ZTPI(t1=1.73,P＜0.05 one-tail;t 2=2.70,P＜0.05),and tend to endorse in the present fatalistic subscale of ZTPI(t=2.19,P＜0.05),but don't feel more lonely.Conclusion Natural forgetters episodic memory is selectively micro-injured under the enactment conditions,which is different from the aging impairment mode of selective source memory,and they have some special personality characteristics.
