The survival processing advantage with the use of binary decisions.
When information is processed in the context of survival, it is particularly well remembered: the survival processing advantage. This effect has been obtained virtually by using word-rating tasks in which participants judge the relevance of words to a survival scenario using Likert scales. Here, we...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 54; no. 2; pp. 452 - 467 |
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