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Academic – UNF – Master of Arts in General Psychology; Adaptive Memory; Cognition; memory; evolution; survival processing; DRM; false memory; intrusions; word list; arousal; social facilitation; camera
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Adaptive Memory And Social Influences, Aaron D. Leedy
Adaptive Memory And Social Influences, Aaron D. Leedy
UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Recently, cognitive psychologists have focused their research on the survival aspects of human memory, showing advantages for remembering information encoded for adaptive qualities. When participants rated words related to survival relevance (stranded in grasslands), Nairne et al. (2007) and others found survival processing’s retention superior to many semantic encoding techniques, however, we questioned the global application of survival processing. In the present adaptive memory experiment we used the thematic word list paradigm pioneered by Deese, Rodeiger and McDermott, allowing us to measure false recall of critical items from sets of word lists. To investigate recall differences based on the material …