A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä
Interactive effects of noise and neuroticism on recall from semantic memory
Tekijät: Johan von Wright, Marja Vauras
Kustantaja: SCANDINAVIAN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Julkaisuvuosi: 1980
Journal: Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
Tietokannassa oleva lehden nimi: SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY
Lehden akronyymi: SCAND J PSYCHOL
Vuosikerta: 21
Numero: 1
Aloitussivu: 97
Lopetussivu: 101
Sivujen määrä: 5
ISSN: 0036-5564
eISSN: 1467-9450
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9450.1980.tb00346.x
Verkko-osoite: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9450.1980.tb00346.x
Subjects recalled names of countries during 8 or 5 min. (Experiments 1 and 2) or performed a set of brief (40 sec) tasks recalling items from semantic or factual memory (Experiment 3), either in silence or in intermittent white noise (95 dB (A)). Noise interfered consistently with the performance of “neurotic” subjects (i.e., subjects scoring above the median on the EPI scale of neuroticism) but had little effect on that of “stable” ones. Performance was not significantly related to extraversion, nor to self-rated activation, and it was uncorrelated with neuroticism in the no-noise condition. An interpretation of the results emphasizing the distracting effects of noise is discussed.