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Emotion and concreteness effects when learning novel concepts in the native language

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    Identificador: imarina:9225184
    Autors:
    Marc Guasch MoixPilar Ferré Romeu
    Resum:
    The aim of the present study was to test the proposal of Kousta et al. (2011), according to which abstract words are more affectively loaded than concrete words. To this end, we focused on the acquisition of novel concepts by means of an intentional learning experiment in which participants had to learn a set of 40 novel concepts in Spanish (definitions) associated with novel word forms (pseudowords). Concreteness (concrete vs. abstract concepts) and emotionality (neutral vs. negative concepts) were orthogonally manipulated. Acquisition was assessed through a recognition task in which participants were asked to match the novel word forms with their definitions. Results showed that concrete concepts were acquired better than abstract concepts. Importantly, the concreteness advantage disappeared when the content of the concept was negative. Hence, emotional (negative) content facilitated the acquisition of abstract concepts, but not of concrete concepts, giving support to the proposal of Kousta et al. (2011).
  • Altres:

    Autor segons l'article: Marc Guasch Moix; Pilar Ferré Romeu
    Departament: Psicologia
    Autor/s de la URV: Ferré Romeu, Maria Pilar / Guasch Moix, Marc
    Resum: The aim of the present study was to test the proposal of Kousta et al. (2011), according to which abstract words are more affectively loaded than concrete words. To this end, we focused on the acquisition of novel concepts by means of an intentional learning experiment in which participants had to learn a set of 40 novel concepts in Spanish (definitions) associated with novel word forms (pseudowords). Concreteness (concrete vs. abstract concepts) and emotionality (neutral vs. negative concepts) were orthogonally manipulated. Acquisition was assessed through a recognition task in which participants were asked to match the novel word forms with their definitions. Results showed that concrete concepts were acquired better than abstract concepts. Importantly, the concreteness advantage disappeared when the content of the concept was negative. Hence, emotional (negative) content facilitated the acquisition of abstract concepts, but not of concrete concepts, giving support to the proposal of Kousta et al. (2011).
    Àrees temàtiques: Statistics and probability Psychology, experimental Psychology (miscellaneous) Psicología Experimental and cognitive psychology Developmental and educational psychology Ciencias sociales Ciencias humanas Arts and humanities (miscellaneous)
    Accès a la llicència d'ús: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    Adreça de correu electrònic de l'autor: mariadelpilar.ferre@urv.cat marc.guasch@urv.cat
    Identificador de l'autor: 0000-0002-3192-0040 0000-0002-6898-120X
    Data d'alta del registre: 2024-07-27
    Versió de l'article dipositat: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Enllaç font original: https://www.sciendo.com/article/10.2478/psicolj-2021-0009
    URL Document de llicència: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Referència a l'article segons font original: Psicologica. 42 (2): 177-191
    Referència de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Marc Guasch Moix; Pilar Ferré Romeu (2021). Emotion and concreteness effects when learning novel concepts in the native language. Psicologica, 42(2), 177-191. DOI: 10.2478/psicolj-2021-0009
    DOI de l'article: 10.2478/psicolj-2021-0009
    Entitat: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Any de publicació de la revista: 2021
    Tipus de publicació: Journal Publications
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    Arts and Humanities (Miscellaneous),Developmental and Educational Psychology,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology,Psychology (Miscellaneous),Psychology, Experimental,Statistics and Probability
    Statistics and probability
    Psychology, experimental
    Psychology (miscellaneous)
    Psicología
    Experimental and cognitive psychology
    Developmental and educational psychology
    Ciencias sociales
    Ciencias humanas
    Arts and humanities (miscellaneous)
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