CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Research on mood congruent memory suggests that individuals with a negative mood are more likely to remember negatively valenced information better than other emotionally valenced information (Fiedler, Nickel, Muehlfriedel, & Unkelbach, 2001).

Detailed explanation-2: -Abstract. The mood-congruent memory effect states that happy people will better remember happy than sad materials, whereas sad people will better remember sad than happy materials (or remember such material equally).

Detailed explanation-3: -Mood congruence versus mood dependence Lewis and Critchley discuss the difference in these memory effects. Mood congruence is when one can match an emotion to a specific memory. Mood dependence, on the other hand, is the sorting of memory when mood at retrieval is the same as encoding.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mood congruence is the consistency between a person’s emotional state with the broader situations and circumstances being experienced by the persons at that time. By contrast, mood incongruence occurs when the individual’s reactions or emotional state appear to be in conflict with the situation.