Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans
Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2014
Tezin Dili: İngilizce
Öğrenci: Deniz Zengin
Danışman: ANNETTE EDELTRAUD HOHENBERGER
Özet:This study investigates the effect of text type (humorous, positive, neutral) and relatedness (related, unrelated) and their possible interaction on memory of visual objects (chocolate bars) associated with those texts, using recognition memory and on-line eye-tracking methodologies. After studying object-text pairs during which their eye-gaze was monitored, participants performed an immediate and a delayed (2 weeks later) recognition memory task for the visual objects. Recognition memory results (hits, d') replicated the previously found “humor effect” in the literature, i.e., objects associated with humorous texts were recognized less as compared to positive and neutral texts. Relatedness had no effect. Furthermore, there was no interaction. Eye-tracking results confirmed the effect of text type in parallel with the recognition memory results, thus supporting the attention hypothesis which states that objects attended longer in the study phase are recognized better in the test phase. Contrary to recognition, eye-tracking results revealed an interaction between humor and relatedness, as hypothesized: while objects related with humorous texts were looked at longer and caused more switches between text and object, those unrelated with humorous texts were looked at shorter and caused fewer switches, a pattern that was not observed for the other text types (positive, neutral). This finding suggests that while attentional differences exist for objects associated with related vs. unrelated humorous texts, they were not reflected in recognition memory performance, possibly because the semantic relation was not explicit enough. The study also shows how behavioral performance measures (recognition memory) can be complemented by on-line measures (eye-tracking).