Rôle d'un procédé de dramatisation sur la mémorisation d'un récit

Abstract

Summary : Role of a dramatization procedure on the memorization of a story. The main purpose of this experiment was to study the influence of the affective load of words upon memorization of a news-story. In each of the three central paragraphe of a first version («neutral version»), the 6 weakest nouns and adjectives on the affective evaluation scale were employed. In each of the three central paragraph of a second version (« dramatized version ») the strongest words were employed. 50 Ss participated in this experiment. Free recall (immediate and delayed : 8 days) was used as a indication of output processes implied by the task. These results support the hypothesis that the emotional load of words influences the memorization of a text. This effect varies quantitatively and qualitatively according to sentence and text constituants (types of propositions and categories of words) and their position in the story. Key words : text processing, affective load.

Effects of Valence and Emotional Intensity on the Comprehension and Memorization of Texts

“…The influence of the latter was only observed when the text was very moving. This confirmed the findings of Legros (1988), who used two versions of the same newspaper article that differed solely in their emotional intensity (weakly vs. strongly emotional, featuring terms with stronger affective connotations). He presented these versions to two groups of high-school students aged 16-18 years.…”

“…We expected to observe better scores for the negatively valenced texts than for the positively valenced ones, as research in the literature shows that texts associated with negative emotions give rise to an easier processing of the events (Davidson, 2006; Mouw et al, 2017). Also we expected better scores for the highly emotional texts than for the less emotional ones like previous works where participants in the strongly emotional condition achieved better recall performances (Legros, 1988). We also expected to observe an interaction effect between valence and intensity for emotional texts and a greater interaction effect for negative and high-intensity texts ( Hypothesis 2 ).…”

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“…Les travaux conduits depuis une décennie sur le rôle de l'émotion dans le traitement cognitif des textes ont complètement renouvelé le paradigme de la compréhension et de la production de texte (Gigax, et al 2007 ;Hayes, 1996 ;Ortony et al, 1988 ;Marotto et al 2011 ;Piolat & Bannour 2011 ;Tétu, 2004). Des études ont montré que la présence dans un texte de mots à forte connotation affective oriente le lecteur dans le traitement de l'information textuelle et favorise la mémorisation de cette information Guéraud & Tapiero, 2001 ;Legros, 1988).…”

Typicality of Interpersonal Situations: The Role of Affect in Determining Contextual Variations in Typicality Norms

“…In this study we shall consider two of the major domains in today's vast field of psychology: firstly, the domain of cognition, and secondly, that of affect and motivation. Certain factors common to these two domains, and the relationships between them, have been investigated by Legros (1988) and Martins (1984), to mention only two of the French studies. The present work is part of that theoretical trend.…”