Context matters: Need for Cognition moderates immediate story recall but not other types of memory tests

IF 2.6 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Personality and Individual Differences Pub Date : 2025-09-18 DOI:10.1016/j.paid.2025.113458

Bailey N. Wagaman , Vasilios C. Ikonomou , Ivan A. Campbell , Nicholas C. Borgogna , Stephen L. Aita , Emily Elliot , Benjamin D. Hill

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Abstract

Need for Cognition (NFC) is a personality trait that reflects motivation to engage in effortful thinking. While NFC has been linked to various domains of cognitive functioning, its relation with memory has not been investigated. We examined whether NFC moderates the relation between verbal episodic memory and intelligence. Participants (n = 174, M_age = 20.10, SD_age = 1.50) completed the NFC Questionnaire, Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-III, and Wechsler Memory Scale-III. At the bivariate level, NFC was positively correlated with general intelligence (r = 0.41) and story memory (r = 0.26). Multiple regression models evaluated whether NFC moderated the relation between contextual memory and intelligence. NFC moderated the relation between Logical Memory I and FSIQ (β = 0.19) but was not significant for Logical Memory II and FSIQ (β = 0.13). Individuals high in NFC may encode more information when initially learning a story due to higher interest in the story's context, thereby leading to greater task engagement. This improves initial learning of the story but not later recall. NFC may affect learning through increased test engagement and/or enhanced learning motivation but only for contextually rich memory tests, such as memory for stories.

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情境很重要：认知需求调节即时故事回忆，但不影响其他类型的记忆测试

认知需求（NFC）是一种反映努力思考动机的人格特质。虽然近距离接触与认知功能的各个领域有关，但其与记忆的关系尚未得到研究。我们研究了NFC是否调节了言语情景记忆和智力之间的关系。参与者（n = 174, Mage = 20.10, SDage = 1.50）完成了NFC问卷、韦氏成人智力量表- iii和韦氏记忆量表- iii。在双变量水平上，NFC与一般智力（r = 0.41）和故事记忆（r = 0.26）呈正相关。多元回归模型评估NFC是否调节了情境记忆与智力之间的关系。NFC调节了逻辑记忆I和FSIQ的关系（β = 0.19），但对逻辑记忆II和FSIQ的影响不显著（β = 0.13）。由于对故事背景更感兴趣，NFC高的个体在最初学习故事时可能会编码更多的信息，从而导致更大的任务投入。这有助于故事的初步学习，但不利于后来的回忆。NFC可能通过提高测试参与度和/或增强学习动机来影响学习，但仅适用于情境丰富的记忆测试，如故事记忆。

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Personality and Individual Differences PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

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8.50

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4.70%

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577

审稿时长

41 days

期刊介绍： Personality and Individual Differences is devoted to the publication of articles (experimental, theoretical, review) which aim to integrate as far as possible the major factors of personality with empirical paradigms from experimental, physiological, animal, clinical, educational, criminological or industrial psychology or to seek an explanation for the causes and major determinants of individual differences in concepts derived from these disciplines. The editors are concerned with both genetic and environmental causes, and they are particularly interested in possible interaction effects.