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Survival Processing and the Stroop Task: Does the Survival Advantage Depend on Deeper Processing During Encoding?

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This study was designed to investigate the impact of survival processing with a novel task for this paradigm: the Stroop colornaming task. As the literature is mixed with regard to task generalizability, with survival processing promoting better memory for words, but not better memory for faces or paired associates, these types of task investigations are important to a growing field of research. Using the Stroop task provides a unique contribution, as identifying items by color is an important evolutionary adaptation and not specific to humans as is the case with word recall. Our results indicate that survival processing, with its accompanying survival-relevance rating task, remains the best mnemonic strategy for word memory. However, our results also indicate that presenting the survival passage does not motivate better color-naming performance than color-naming alone. In addition, survival processing led to a larger amount of Stroop interference, though not significantly larger than the other conditions. Together, these findings suggest that considering one’s survival when performing memory and attention-based tasks does not enhance cognitive performance generally, although greater allocation of attentional resources to color-incongruent concrete objects could be considered adaptive. These findings support the notion that engaging in deeper processing via survival-relevance ratings may preserve these words across a variety of experimental manipulations.

Keywords
survival processing, Stroop task, free recall, levels of processing

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Judul Seri

Evolutionary Psychology

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Penerbit

U.S.A : SAGE., 2015

Deskripsi Fisik

Evolutionary Psychology 2015

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English

ISBN/ISSN

DOI: 10.1177/1474704

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Tipe Media

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Edisi

2015: 1–8

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PSIKOLOGI

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