Adaptive Memory: Determining the Proximate Mechanisms Responsible for the Memorial Advantages of Survival Processing

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 206-218

  Burns, Daniel J ^a   Burns, Sarah A ^b   Hwang, Ana J ^a  

^a UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

^b LE MOYNE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive memory; Free recall; Item specific; Relational; Survival processing

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; STUDENT; SURVIVAL; UNIVERSITY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); STUDENTS; SURVIVAL; UNIVERSITIES; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 79251525178     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021325     Document Type: Article

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