B - 108 The Trait Need for Cognition Moderates Story Learning but Not Other Memory Tests.

High NFC individuals may encode more information when initially learning a story due to higher interest in the story context. This appears to improve initial learning of the story but not later recall. Although NFC was correlated with Spatial Span and both immediate and delayed recall for LM, NFC was not related to WMS-III Faces, Family Pictures, or Verbal Paired Associates, which suggests NFC may affect learning through increased test engagement or motivation.