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Autor/inn/en | Nairne, James S.; Coverdale, Michelle E.; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S. |
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Titel | Adaptive Memory: The Mnemonic Power of Survival-Based Generation |
Quelle | In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45 (2019) 11, S.1970-1982 (13 Seiten)
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0278-7393 |
DOI | 10.1037/xlm0000687 |
Schlagwörter | Mnemonics; Recall (Psychology); Evolution; Retention (Psychology); Undergraduate Students; Vignettes; Introductory Courses; Experimental Psychology; Adjustment (to Environment); Stimuli; Imagination; Problem Solving; Indiana |
Abstract | Four experiments investigated the mnemonic effects of generating survival situations. People were given target words and asked to generate survival situations involving that stimulus (e.g., DOOR: "I'm in a house that's on fire, and I can escape through the door"). No constraints were placed on the generation process, other than that it must be survival-related and refer to the target stimulus. Following a series of these generation trials people were given a surprise retention test for the target words. Across four experiments the survival generation task produced significantly better retention than several deep processing controls including: (a) a pleasantness-rating task, (b) an autobiographical retrieval task, and (c) a task that required people to generate unusual uses for the target items. These results demonstrate the power of survival processing in a new way and provide diagnostic information about the proximate mechanisms that may underlie survival processing advantages. They also extend the generality of survival processing beyond the standard relevance-rating procedure that has been used in virtually all prior research. (As Provided). |
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Update | 2020/1/01 |