Does survival processing have an advantage over intentional learning for recognition and source recognition performance?

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It has been widely shown that processing words according to their relevance to a survival scenario leads to a better memory performance for recall and recognition compared to a moving scenario. From an adaptive perspective, the survival processing advantage (the SPA) has been explained, referring to the notion that human memory is selectively tuned for fitness-relevant information. Alternatively, the possible richer and distinctive encoding that the survival scenario provides was suggested as an underlying mechanism. Recently, the SPA was replicated to source memory when the survival scenario was the source itself. In the current study, we aimed to investigate the interaction between intention to learn and survival processing on item and source recognition performance. To do this, an experiment with 2(context: survival vs. moving) x 3(learning: true-incidental, source-incidental, intentional) mixed design was conducted. It was hypothesized that the SPA would be observed for both item and source recognition regardless of the learning manipulations. However, the performance of the words rated with the moving scenario was expected to vary across learning conditions. In other words, the level of the SPA was expected to change with the intention to learn. As expected, we replicated the SPA on item and source recognition. Nevertheless, contrary to our second expectation, we did not observe any effect of learning instructions on both contexts. These results were discussed with possible underlying ultimate and proximate mechanisms of survival processing, and functional differences in the episodic long-term memory.

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Survival processing, Adaptive memory, Source recognition, Intentional learning, Item recognition

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K. İ. Oker, “Does survival processing have an advantage over intentional learning for recognition and source recognition performance?,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2022.