El efecto de la motivación en la supresión de recuerdos no deseados

  1. Pascual Nicolás, Teodoro
  2. Pacios García, Javier
Journal:
EduPsykhé: Revista de psicología y educación

ISSN: 1579-0207

Year of publication: 2013

Volume: 12

Issue: 1

Pages: 77-92

Type: Article

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Abstract

New contributions to the study of forgetting have revealed that executive functions play an active role in this process. Studies using the Think/No Think paradigm have demonstrated that inhibitory control mechanisms can prevent unwanted memories from entering into consciousness, and that this memory suppression may eventually produce forgetting of those memories. However, people are not always motivated to forget in the context of an experimental procedure. To explore the effect of motivation over motivated forgetting, participants with spider phobia and volunteers without any phobia performed a Think/No Think task in which pictures of spiders had to be recalled or suppressed. Overall, volunteers highly motivated to reject unwanted memories recalled worse than control participants. Although, participants with spider phobia did not clearly show greater forgetting of suppressed trials than volunteers without phobia, they showed a tendency towards an absence of practice effect and a greater suppression effect. Limitations of this pilot study, such as the high perceptual similarity of the stimuli, and possible future directions are discussed.

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