Facultad de Psicología y Logopedia, University of La Laguna (IUNE), E-38205, La Laguna, Spain.
University of Salamanca (INICO), Salamanca, Spain.
Behav Res Methods. 2021 Feb;53(1):153-166. doi: 10.3758/s13428-020-01434-z.
With the aim of finding quantitative indicators of the survival relevance for a set of concrete concepts, a subjective rating task was administered to a large sample of college students (N = 300). In the rating task, participants used a five-point scale to rate 750 concepts in one of two survival-relevant dimensions, providing their own judgment about the relevance of each concept in a situation in which either avoiding death (AD) or obtaining food (OF) was of importance. The subjective ratings showed high stability and reliability and showed varied patterns of association to potentially relevant concept-defining variables, with correlational analyses showing both commonalities and differences between the two rated dimensions. Regression analyses indicated that, while not likely to modulate word accessibility, survival ratings were related to certain conceptual properties that could be especially sensitive for threat detection. The collected data set provides normative information that can be of use in manipulating and controlling verbal stimuli in future research focusing on adaptive properties of episodic memory and other aspects of the human cognitive system. The complete norms are available for downloading at Open Science Framework ( https://osf.io/sf9mb/ ).
为了找到一组具体概念的生存相关性的定量指标，对一大群大学生（N=300）进行了主观评分任务。在评分任务中，参与者使用五点量表对 750 个概念中的每一个在两个生存相关维度中的一个维度进行评分，对每个概念在避免死亡（AD）或获得食物（OF）很重要的情况下的相关性做出自己的判断。主观评分显示出较高的稳定性和可靠性，与潜在相关的概念定义变量呈现出不同的关联模式，相关分析显示了两个评分维度之间的共性和差异。回归分析表明，尽管不太可能调节单词的可及性，但生存评分与某些概念属性有关，这些属性对威胁检测可能特别敏感。收集的数据集提供了规范性信息，可用于在未来关注情景记忆的适应属性和人类认知系统其他方面的研究中操纵和控制言语刺激。完整的规范可在开放科学框架（https://osf.io/sf9mb/）上下载。
