研究發現 焦慮有助於提高記憶力

Anxiety can help people to remember things, a study from the University of Waterloo has found.
滑鐵盧大學的一項研究發現，焦慮可以幫助人們記住事物。

The study of 80 undergraduate students found that manageable levels of anxiety actually aided people in being able to recall the details of events.
這項以80名本科生爲研究對象的研究發現，可控的焦慮程度事實上能幫助人們回憶事件的細節。

It also found that when anxiety levels got too high or descended into fear, it could lead to the coloring of memories where people begin to associate otherwise neutral elements of an experience to the negative context.
研究還發現，當焦慮程度過高或變爲恐懼時，會造成記憶的假象，使人們開始將某次經歷中的普通情節與消極內容聯繫起來。

"People with high anxiety have to be careful," said co-author Myra Fernandes, professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Waterloo.
滑鐵盧大學心理學系教授邁拉·費爾南德斯表示：“高度焦慮的人必須要當心了。”

"To some degree, there is an optimal level of anxiety that is going to benefit your memory, but high levels of anxiety can cause people to reach a tipping point, which impacts their memories and performance."
“從某種程度來說，存在一種有益於記憶的最佳焦慮水平，但是高度焦慮可能會導致人們達到臨界點，從而影響他們的記憶和表現。”

"By thinking about emotional events or by thinking about negative events this might put you in a negative mindset that can bias you or change the way you perceive your current environment," said Christopher Lee, a psychology Ph. D. candidate at Waterloo.
滑鐵盧大學心理學博士學位候選人克里斯托弗·李表示：“通過思考情緒事件或思考負面事件，這可能會讓你陷入一種消極的心態，這種心態會使你產生偏見，或改變你對當前環境的看法。”

"So, I think for the general public it is important to be aware of what biases you might bring to the table or what particular mindset you might be viewing the world in and how that might ultimately shape what we walk away seeing."
“因此，我認爲，對於普通公衆而言，重要的是要意識到你可能會帶來什麼樣的偏見，或者你可能看到的世界是什麼樣的心態，以及這種觀念如何最終塑造我們所看到的東西。”

Fernandes also said that for educators, it is important to be mindful that there could be individual factors that influence the retention of the material they are teaching and that lightening the mood when teaching could be beneficial.
費爾南德斯還說，對於教育工作者需要注意的是，可能存在個人因素影響他們所教的材料在腦海中的停留時間；甚至當教學的內容對他們有益處時，還能提高他們情緒的積極性。