Abstract
Purpose: This study aimed at verifying the effect of an audience on memory of verbal materials under task-oriented and ego-oriented motivational instructions.
Method: This experiment consisted of 3 sessions which included same number of trials of short-term memory tasks. In 2nd session, a classmate of each subject was intruded as an assistant of the experimenter. The yariation of short-term memory and electrical skin conductance as a measure of arousal leyel was examined under task-oriented, ego-oriented and control (without intrusion of a classmate) situations.
Results: The influence of an audience (classmates) under 2 motivational situations were compared with those of control situation. The intrusion of a classmate under task-oriented situation increased memory and GSR. But under ego-oriented situation the intrusion of a classmate did not bring about such remarkable variation.
