The current study examined animacy and paired-associate learning through a survival-
processing paradigm (Nairne et al. in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning …

Four experiments investigated the mnemonic effects of generating survival situations.
People were given target words and asked to generate survival situations involving that …

Abstract Words judged for their relevance in a survival context are remembered better than
words processed in non-survival contexts. This phenomenon is known as the survival …

Researchers have found that compared with other existing conditions (eg, pleasantness),
information relevant to survival produced a higher rate of retrieval; this effect is known as the …

Humans preferentially remember information processed for their survival relevance, a
memorial benefit known as the survival processing effect. Memory is also biased towards …

Recent findings from the memory literature indicate that the human memory system may
prioritize survival-relevant information, relative to other types of information. The original …

Like all biological systems, human memory is likely to have been influenced by evolutionary
processes, and its abilities have been subjected to selective mechanisms. Consequently …

Abstract Words judged for relevance in a survival situation are remembered better than
words judged for relevance in a nonsurvival context. This survival processing effect has …

Les recherches antérieures ont révélé une meilleure mémorisation de l'information encodée
qui est jugée pertinente dans un contexte de survie comparativement à un contexte de …

Deeply rooted within the history of experimental psychology is the search for general laws of
learning that hold across tasks and species. Central to this enterprise has been the notion of …