a Department of Psychology , Middle East Technical University , Ankara , Turkey.
b Department of Psychology , TOBB University of Economics and Technology , Ankara , Turkey.
Memory. 2019 Jul;27(6):780-791. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2019.1566928. Epub 2019 Jan 16.
Nairne, Thompson, and Pandeirada [2007. Adaptive memory: Survival processing enhances retention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33, 263-273] demonstrated that processing words according to their relevance to a survival scenario enhanced their subsequent retrieval in recall and recognition tasks compared to a variety of control scenarios. From an adaptive perspective, it is maintained that processing words in a survival context should also enhance memory for source; however, evidence in the literature is rather mixed regarding a survival context advantage for source memory. In the current study, we conducted four experiments to systematically investigate the survival advantage in source memory, when the context itself is the source, with both recall (Experiments 1A and 1B) and recognition tests (Experiments 2A and 2B). Results showed a survival advantage for item memory over the control contexts in all experiments. The survival context advantage was not extended to source memory performance in Experiment 1A. Results from all other experiments, however, indicated a survival context advantage for both item and source memory. Findings are discussed in relation to possible proximate mechanisms underlying the survival processing effect.
奈尔、汤普森和潘迪尔达[2007. 适应性记忆：生存处理增强保留。实验心理学杂志：学习、记忆和认知，33，263-273]表明，根据与生存场景的相关性来处理单词会增强它们在回忆和识别任务中的后续检索，而不是各种控制场景。从适应的角度来看，人们认为在生存环境中处理单词也应该增强对来源的记忆；然而，文献中的证据对于来源记忆的生存环境优势存在相当大的分歧。在当前的研究中，我们进行了四项实验，系统地研究了在来源是上下文本身的情况下，来源记忆中的生存优势，使用了回忆（实验 1A 和 1B）和识别测试（实验 2A 和 2B）。结果表明，在所有实验中，与控制环境相比，生存环境对项目记忆有优势。然而，在实验 1A 中，生存环境优势并未扩展到来源记忆表现。然而，所有其他实验的结果都表明，生存环境对项目和来源记忆都有优势。研究结果与生存处理效应的潜在近似机制有关。
