A test of the survival processing advantage in implicit and explicit memory tests

McBride, Dawn M.; Thomas, Brandon J.; Zimmerman, Corinne

doi:10.3758/s13421-013-0304-y

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“…Burns, Hwang, and Burns (2011) also examined the role of item-specific and relational processing in the survival task, but they suggest that it is possible that these mechanisms themselves are the adaptations that promote memory for survival situations. However, McBride, Thomas, and Zimmerman (2013) argued that if survival processing serves adaptive needs it might have evolved in an evolutionarily older form of memory, but they found no evidence of a survival processing advantage in implicit memory. Some research has even shown that processing in dying scenarios can benefit memory to a comparable degree as survival processing (Burns, Hart, & Kramer, 2014), which may call fitness-relevancy into question.…”

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Investigations of a reproductive processing advantage in memory

2017

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Previous work has shown that processing words for their survival value improves memory. If this survival processing effect reflects an evolutionary adaptation in memory, processing words for their reproductive value should also improve memory. Across three experiments, participants rated words for their relevance in reproductive scenarios. In Experiment 1, participants rated adjectives (traits) for their relevance in finding a mate, evaluating a coworker, or in terms of their pleasantness. Mate processing produced better memory than pleasantness ratings, but not coworker processing. In Experiment 2, participants rated traits for their relevance in detecting sexual or emotional infidelity. Neither processing condition produced better memory compared to pleasantness ratings, but there were several unpredicted interactions involving participant sex and jealousy responses. In Experiment 3, participants rated gifts for their appropriateness in a romantic date or a housewarming party, or in terms of their pleasantness. Date processing and housewarming processing both improved recall compared to pleasantness rating, but date processing and housewarming processing did not produce differences compared to each other. Overall, the current study demonstrates very little evidence of a reproductive processing effect, and nothing approaching the magnitude of previous work on the survival processing effect.

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Investigations of a reproductive processing advantage in memory

2017

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“…McBride, Thomas, and Zimmerman (2013) also point out that if memory serves adaptive needs, it might have evolved in an older form of memory. However, McBride et al found no support for a survival advantage in implicit tests.…”

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A meta-analysis of the survival-processing advantage in memory

2017

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“…In the study of explicit memory, Nairne et al found that explicit memory has evolved for survival [7]. However, McBride et al found that survival as a primary purpose of memory cannot be detected in implicit memory [68]. Short-terms (working) memory for conscious is necessary for explicit memory, so conscious attention in terms of working memory has also evolved for survival.…”

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Conscious, Explicit Memory, Implicit Memory, and Instincts as the Four-Component Mind for the Mental Origins of Psychotherapy and Personality

Chung¹

2020

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This paper proposes that conscious, explicit memory, implicit memory, and instincts constitute the four-component mind for the mental origins of psychotherapy and personality. The mental origin of the personality theories including the big five personality traits, the MBTI, the social style model, the Hofstede's cultural dimensions, and the Schwartz's theory of basic human values is from the unconscious instincts (the six social and three mental protective instincts). The three mental protective instincts that contain the three instinctive countermeasures against the three adversities are hyperactivity countermeasure against danger, phobia countermeasure against unfamiliarity-uncertainty, and comforter countermeasure against hardship. Each countermeasure is regulated (moderated) by a regulator to minimize overactive countermeasure as physical regulator to minimize overactive immunity in physical immune system. Severe adversities and ineffective regulators over-activate protective countermeasures to generate overactive countermeasures as overactive hyperactivity, overactive phobia, and overactive comforter, corresponding to dramatic-impulsive cluster, anxious-fearful cluster, and odd-eccentric cluster, respectively for personality-mental disorders in the DSM-5. Such disordered behavioral habits are stored in unconscious implicit memory which generates disordered thought patterns in pre-conscious explicit memory. For psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) normalizes disordered thought patterns in explicit memory to normalize disordered behavioral habit memory in implicit memory through the repetitive training in normalizing thought patterns, feelings, and behaviors. For psychotherapy, mindfulness meditation strengthens conscious attention (working memory) to normalize disordered behavioral habit memory through the How to cite this paper: Chung, D.Y.

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A test of the survival processing advantage in implicit and explicit memory tests

Cited by 23 publications

References 32 publications

Investigations of a reproductive processing advantage in memory

Investigations of a reproductive processing advantage in memory

A meta-analysis of the survival-processing advantage in memory

Conscious, Explicit Memory, Implicit Memory, and Instincts as the Four-Component Mind for the Mental Origins of Psychotherapy and Personality

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