Porsing, A (2022) What do Participants Think when Judging Items in the Survival-Processing Paradigm? An Exploratory Study Using the Type-Aloud Method. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
The aim of this study is to investigate the survival-processing advantage using a type-aloud protocol. It was hypothesised that engagement within a survival scenario, whilst rating objects in terms of their fitness-relevance, would prompt participants to generate a larger number of uses for the objects. The increased number of functions would in turn function as retrieval cues to enhance subsequent recall for the objects rated within the survival scenario, making up the survival-processing advantage. To test this hypothesis, participants were instructed to write down their thoughts on the imagined scenario and while rating objects in terms of their relevance in a survival scenario and in a moving scenario. In the end, participants were presented with a surprise-free recall test in which they had to remember as many objects as possible from the scenarios. Results show that participants come up with significantly more functions for objects within the survival scenario. Also, the number of functions thought of for each object, positively predicts recall. The study found a difference in mean recall between the survival and moving scenario, however, the difference did not reach significance. The findings support a richness-of-encoding account for the survival- processing advantage, according to which the distinctiveness and elaboration during encoding is responsible for the increased ability for recall. In addition, it is shown that the type-aloud protocol can be used to study the survival-processing advantage and give direct insights into what people think within the paradigm. Keywords: survival-processing paradigm, survival-processing advantage, declarative memory, the richness-of-encoding hypothesis, evolutionary theory
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Nieuwenstein, M.R. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Jul 2022 13:39 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Jul 2022 13:39 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1100 |
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