Abstract
This study investigates now retrieval process difference in episode recall tasks influence mood congruent memory by employing the remember-know paradigm. Sixty undergraduate students participated in this experiment. The participants were randomly assigned to three types of mood-induced groups (positive, negative and neutral). Each condition was presented with stimulus words at 4 seconds. The stimuli were 30 pleasant and 30 unpleasant trait adjective words. In the study phase, a participant made “Remember”, “Know”, or “Not” judgment about whether a word was related to either their own autobiographical memory or episodes involving their mother. The recall results indicated that while there was a mood congruent memory effect on the recollection process, there was no effect on the familiarity process. These findings suggest that the recollection process for the episode recall task is important for the occurrence mood congruent memory.
