Memory for details about people: familiarity, relatedness, and gender congruency

Kole, James A.; Healy, Alice F.

doi:10.3758/s13421-010-0051-2

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“…However, there is a growing body of research that has successfully expanded the functionalist view of memory to concepts such as animacy (Bonin, Gelin, & Bugaiska, 2014;Nairne, VanArsdall, Pandeirada, Cogdill, & LeBreton, 2013;VanArsdall, Nairne, Pandeirada, & Blunt, 2013) and risk of contamination from disease (Nairne, 2015). The current results are also in contrast to other studies that have specifically demonstrated sensitivity in memory to information relevant to mating (Kole & Healy, 2011;Smith et al, 2013;Smith et al, 2012). It is possible that processing verbal materials (which received low relevance ratings in many of the current experiments) may not be the best way to evaluate fitness relevance.…”

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“…The goal of the present study was to examine whether processing stimuli for their reproductive value would produce a recall benefit similar to processing stimuli for their survival value (Nairne & Pandeirada, 2008b). Previous research has suggested that memory systems do show evidence of sensitivity to information relevant to reproduction (Kole & Healy, 2011;Smith et al, 2013;Smith et al, 2012), but Sandry et al (2013) found no evidence that various types of fitnessrelevant processing (including reproduction) benefitted memory to the same degree as survival processing. We speculated that one potential reason that Sandry et al failed to find evidence of a reproductive processing advantage in memory was that their processing scenarios dealt with rating objects for their relevance in obtaining sexual partners, and objects may be much less relevant to reproduction than survival in the way the scenarios were presented to participants.…”

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“…There have been several other recent approaches to studying potential reproductive adaptions in memory. Kole and Healy (2011) examined memory for details about people. Participants learned details about familiar people (such as friends and relatives) and unfamiliar people, then compared cued recall of those details across levels of relatedness (e.g., identical twins, first cousins, friends).…”

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Investigations of a reproductive processing advantage in memory

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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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“…In fact, this finding (though not specifically the evolutionary interpretation) is supported by older work demonstrating the role of intimacy between the participant and an imagined third person and recall (Bower & Gilligan, 1979).They found similar rates of recall for items related to oneself compared to related to one's mother, but worse recall for items related to a stranger (i.e., "Walter Cronkite"). More recently, Kole and Healy (2011) found that information describing a hypothetical identical twin was better remembered than information describing a first cousin. All of these findings are well explained by the proposed Omega scaling factor, but of course, these are post-hoc explanations.…”

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Adaptive Memory: Generality of the Parent Processing Effect and Effects of Biological Relatedness on Recall

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Polack

Miller

2020

Evolutionary Psychological Science

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The adaptive memory framework posits that the human memory system is an evolved cognitive feature, in which stimuli relevant to fitness are better remembered than neutral stimuli. There is now substantial evidence that processing a neutral stimulus in terms of its relevancy to an imagined ancestral survival scenario produces enhances recall, although there is still disagreement concerning the proximate mechanisms responsible for this effect. Several other mnemonic biases have recently been discovered that similarly appear to reflect evolutionary pressures, including a bias to remember items relevant to an imagined parenting scenario. We tested the generality of this parent processing effect by varying the biological relatedness of the imagined child. We also varied the biological relatedness of a child during an imagined thirdperson survival processing scenario. Across four experiments, we found evidence that simply altering the described biological relatedness of a child in the parenting scenario and third-person survival processing scenario can affect recall, such that items are better remembered when made relevant to a biological child compared to an adopted child. How these findings inform the general adaptive memory framework is discussed.

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“…Follow-up research by Kole and Healy (2011) explored the relationships between people to determine which are most effective in promoting learning of facts about people. Learning was facilitated for familiar compared to unfamiliar people, for friends and acquaintances compared to relatives, as well as for more closely related individuals compared to more distantly related individuals.…”

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Principles of Expertise for Skill Learning

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2022

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Expertise in any domain is attained through extensive practice. The best practice methods depend on several factors, among which are the three primary phases of training: acquisition, retention, and transfer. In this chapter, we consider nine principles that promote skill learning, all of which have considerable empirical support. Four of the principles involve complicating learning, whereas five involve simplifying it. Complications that have been shown to be beneficial include desirable difficulties, cognitive antidote, variability of practice, and strategic use of knowledge. Beneficial simplifications include focus of attention, mental practice, rules, functional task, and stimulus-response compatibility. Which principle or set of principles to use in a particular training situation necessarily depends on which particular task is being learned and which parameters of the task can be manipulated. Nevertheless, the principles provide useful guidelines for consideration when designing a training regimen to optimize skill learning.

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Memory for details about people: familiarity, relatedness, and gender congruency

Cited by 7 publications

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Investigations of a reproductive processing advantage in memory

Investigations of a reproductive processing advantage in memory

Adaptive Memory: Generality of the Parent Processing Effect and Effects of Biological Relatedness on Recall

Principles of Expertise for Skill Learning

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