Efectos del aprendizaje asociativo entre un olor y una emoción evocada en jóvenes de Medellín

Abstract

The present study is an academic exercise that aims to adapt previous scientific research relating the effects of associative learning between an odor and an emotion (Herz, Schankler and Beland, 2004). A total of 9 participants are divided into three groups according to the conditions of the presence or absence of a particular odor, Group 1 is exposed to the same odor at two times, Group 2 is exposed to a different odor at each time, and Group 3 is not exposed to any particular odor (control). The STAI instrument is used to measure anxiety-state levels in a pretest-posttest model and performance is assessed with a linguistic task. The findings are similar to those of the study by Herz et al. (2004), where Group 1 presents an increase in anxiety at Moment 2 compared to Moment 1 and the time spent together with the correct answers is lower compared to the other groups; however, the behavior of Group 2 is similar to Group 1, so it is pertinent to carry out a similar study in the future with a larger sample to obtain representative results and more information on this phenomenon.