高度唤起语言的评价与年龄相关的差异
Meredith A Shafto1, Lise Abrams1, Lori E James2
1Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Pomona College.
Psychology and aging
|June 3, 2024
概括
老年人从高度刺激的词语中经历的情绪兴奋较少,这会影响他们如何处理令人兴奋的语言. 这种与年龄相关的兴奋差异对于理解整个生命周期的情感语言处理至关重要.
科学领域:
- 心理语言学 心理语言学
- 认知老龄化 认知老龄化
- 情绪处理 情绪处理
背景情况:
- 词的情感性质,包括价值和唤起,显著影响语言处理.
- 高度唤醒的单词,像禁忌单词一样,可以破坏后续的语言任务.
- 关于老龄化如何影响处理情感激发语言的研究有限.
研究的目的:
- 为了调查成年人在整个生命周期中如何评估高度唤起的语言.
- 描述禁忌和幽默词语的兴奋和情感评级的年龄相关差异.
- 为了确定年龄是否会影响唤起和词语特征之间的关系.
主要方法:
- 对不同年龄组的成年人进行了评分任务.
- 参与者评估了禁忌和幽默的词语对兴奋,禁忌和幽默的评价.
- 评估了心理社会变量,例如避免亵和宗教信仰.
主要成果:
- 兴奋和禁忌/幽默等级之间的相关性随着年龄的增长而减弱.
- 与年轻成年人相比,中年和老年人报告的整体兴奋评级较低.
- 年龄对兴奋的影响并不能由社会心理因素来解释.
结论:
- 年龄对充满情感的词语的兴奋评分有很大影响.
- 老年人的兴奋减少可能会影响他们处理高度刺激的语言.
- 未来关于成年期情感语言处理的研究应该考虑与年龄相关的兴奋差异.
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