| Question |
Answer |
Flap 3 |
| Definition of repression |
UNCONCIOUS rejection of a thought |
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| Definition of suppression |
CONCIOUS rejection of a thought |
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| Wegner et al (1987) |
"Don't think about white bear", thought and spoke about it a bit |
"Now you can talk about anything", thought and spoke about it loads, IRONIC POST SUPPRESSION REBOUND EFFECT |
| Wegner et al (1992) |
Communication inhib. |
secret relationships/unrequited love = think about it more, |
| Wegner et al (1994) |
Footsie game |
playing footsie in secret makes someone more attractive |
| Wegner (1993) |
emotion inhibition |
mood suppression backfires |
| Salkovskis & Reynolds (1994) |
craving inhibition |
Smoking |
| Suppression readiness |
We suppress when a thought keeps stopping our stream of conciousness |
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| Distractor associations |
Distractors wont work if they're associated with whatever it is you're trying to not think about |
So in Wegner (1987), no good using distractors from testing lab as they're all associated, have to move labs to get good distractors |
| Martin (1993) |
Goal interruption |
IPSRE because of Zeigarnik effect, motivation to fulfil a blocked goal |
| Wegner (1992) i |
Ironic process theory. Operator - concious, defines what we're suppressing and looks for distractors, needs cog resources. Once found distractor turns off, monitor looks for traces of unwanted thought. If finds, operator comes back on. |
Not just priming as occurs even when primed in not suppressed condition. |
| Wegner & Erber (1992) |
When you deplete cog resources, operator knackered out during supression so when you stop supressing, even greater IPSRE |
used a timed condition word assoc task, and stroop task - Stereotype supp. & false memories |
| Macrae, Bodenhausen, Milne & Jetten (1994) |
Supp & stereotypes |
Suppressed people more stereotypical of skin heads than non-suppresed. In EXP 2 they sat further away from teh chair with "skin-head" props-shows it in real life. |
| So when do we supress stereotypes? |
Violate internal standards so we feel guilty and then increase self focus (Devine, 1989), OR just Increased self focus strengthens internal beliefs (Macrae et al, 1998) |
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| Peters, Jelicic & Merckelbach (2006) |
Stereo supp & false memories |
prime with neg. stereotype group & told to suppress. Played a tape of racially neutral crime and then recalled more false memoried concordent w steretype than if not asked to supp. |
| Trauma |
if suppress early on then can interfere with cognition later on in life |
aaron et al 1999 |
| OCD |
Janeck & Calamari (1999) try harder to suppress but cannot and get upset. Smari et al (1994), obsessional people find it harder to suppress. |
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| Depression |
Wenzlaff et al (1998) depressed ppl use more negative distractors, '91, make associations between distractors and bad feeling. Therefore distractors no good, 1998, supp actually prolongues depression |
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| Nastegaal et al (2005) |
looked at diff stragtegies for controlling aggressive fantasies. |
Suppression, distraction and re-appraisal used (worrying and social coping not used). Supp. correlated with aggression, distraction best for control. |
| Success of suppression |
dependent on emotional charge, neutrality & relevance to current concerns. |
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| Could try..... |
concentrating on goal, using more effective distractors & expressing unwanted thoughts. |
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