Stupica, Hana (2022) Adaptive Memory: What does the Think-Aloud Protocol tell us about the Survival-Processing Advantage. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Nairne et al. (2007) discovered a strong mnemonic advantage for the information processed in the survival context. Later studies showed that this survival-processing advantage might be due to the higher elaboration induced by the survival scenario, known as the richness-of-encoding hypothesis (Kroneisen & Erdfelder, 2011). Our study directly tested this hypothesis through the adapted version of the think-aloud protocol (Ericsson & Simon, 1984) using typing instead of speaking. Our results showed that we did not find a statistically significant survival-processing advantage. Nevertheless, we did find that participants showed more elaboration in terms of producing more functions for the given objects in the survival scenario compared to the control moving scenario. Being able to analyze the exact thoughts of the participants, we also found that the survival scenario triggers thinking about goals that require functional focus for their achievement, while this did not occur for the moving scenario. Additionally, participants in the rating task referred to all three goals mentioned in the scenario when being in the survival condition, while they referred to only one goal in the moving condition. Translating these findings into the search-inference framework (Baron, 2008), we reasoned that a survival scenario offers more chances to link the objects to the goals of the scenario, resulting in higher elaboration. Therefore, the mnemonic advantage of the survival-processing context might not be due to the scenario per se, but rather the more general mechanism of elaboration that this scenario induces.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Nieuwenstein, M.R. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Jul 2022 07:40 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Jul 2022 07:40 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1049 |
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