The present study examined the roles of word concreteness and word valence in the immediate serial recall task. Emotion words (e.g. happy) were used to investigate these effects. Participants completed study-test trials with 7-item study lists consisting of positive or negative words with either high or low concreteness (Experiments 1 and 2) and neutral (i.e. non-emotion) words with either high or low concreteness (Experiment 2). In serial recall performance, we replicated the typical item concreteness effect (concrete words are better recalled than abstract words) and obtained an item valence effect (positive/neutral words are better recalled than negative words). However, there was no concreteness × valence interaction. We conclude that both word valence and word concreteness independently contribute to the serial order retention of emotion words in the immediate serial recall task.

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词具体性和词效价对立即连续回忆的独立影响

本研究检查了单词具体性和单词效价在直接连续回忆任务中的作用。情感词（例如快乐) 用于研究这些影响。参与者完成了包含 7 项研究列表的学习测试试验，其中包括具有高或低具体性的正面或负面词（实验 1 和 2）和具有高或低具体性的中性（即非情感）词（实验 2）。在序列召回性能中，我们复制了典型的项目具体性效应（具体词比抽象词更好地回忆）并获得项目效价效应（积极/中性词比消极词更好地回忆）。然而，没有具体性×价相互作用。我们得出的结论是，词效价和词具体性都独立地促进了即时序列回忆任务中情感词的序列顺序保留。