Can an unpredictable childhood environment enhance working memory? Testing the sensitized-specialization hypothesis

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 891-908

  Young, Ethan S ^a   Griskevicius, Vladas ^b   Simpson, Jeffry A ^a   Waters, Theodore E A ^c   Mittal, Chiraag ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ABU DHABI   (United Arab Emirates)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionary psychology; Life history theory; Social development; Unpredictable environments; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFE HISTORY; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SPECIALIZATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; WORKING MEMORY; ADULT; ATTENTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEQUENCE LEARNING; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; UNCERTAINTY; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES; ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SERIAL LEARNING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; UNCERTAINTY; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85041176681     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/pspi0000124     Document Type: Article

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