A role for self-referential processing in tasks requiring participants to imagine survival on the savannah

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1234-1242

  Klein, Stanley B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Encoding; Episodic retrieval; Evolution; Memory; Planning; Self; Self referential processing; Survival; Temporality

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECALL; SELF CONCEPT; STUDENT; SURVIVAL; UNIVERSITY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SELF CONCEPT; STUDENTS; SURVIVAL; UNIVERSITIES; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84869071917     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0027636     Document Type: Article

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