The effect of anticipated achievement feedback on students' semantic processing as indicated by the N400 cloze effect |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Psychology, London Metropolitan University, UK;2. Achieving for Children (CIC), Emotional Mental Health Service for Kingston and Richmond, London, UK;1. Institute of Educational Science, University of Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany;2. Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014, Finland;3. Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, Yale University, 340 Edwards Street, P.O. Box 208376, New Haven, 06520-8376 CT, USA;4. School of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Eastern Finland, PL 111, 80101 Joensuu, Finland;1. IRSTEA, 92761 Antony, France;2. Univ Lille Nord de France, F-59000 Lille, France;3. UVHC, LAMIH, F-59313 Valenciennes, France;4. CNRS, UMR 8201, F-59313 Valenciennes, France |
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| Abstract: | The present study examined the effects of anticipated achievement feedback on students' semantic processing on the neural level, using event-related brain potentials (ERPs). Participants (N = 79) anticipated either self-referential or normative achievement feedback regarding an announced upcoming test. Additionally, their performance expectations (low vs. no expectations) were orthogonally manipulated. Subsequently, students' on-line semantic processing was assessed by measuring the N400 cloze effect, a component in the EEG signal of which the amplitude is associated with semantic processing. Within the low performance-expectation condition, no effect of anticipated feedback on semantic processing was found. Within the no-performance-expectation condition, participants anticipating self-referential feedback showed a more widely distributed N400 cloze effect than participants anticipating normative feedback. The results confirmed the hypothesis that the mere expectation of a particular type of feedback can affect students' semantic processes. |
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| Keywords: | Anticipated achievement feedback Emotions Semantic processing N400 Event-related potentials |
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