Effects of Music-elicited Emotion on Long-term Memory
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of music-elicited emotion on long-term memory. 288 participants were selected from undergraduate psychology students, who were exposed to one of the three types of music tested (happy, neutral and sad). A mood survey and long term memory test were completed by participants a week after they exposed to the visual stimuli. It was hypothesised that at lease one emotionally arousing (happy and/or sad) has effect on long term memory. More specifically, memory-enhancing effect of negative emotion (sad music) is thus considered to be better than happy and neutral emotion arousal. The results however indicated that only those who were exposed to happy music tend to recall better than the other two groups. It was concluded that a happy music-elicited emotion affects long term memory.
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Long term memory (LTM) is just like a large-capacity repository of one's permanent memory.
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