APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
The Effects of Animacy in Survival Processing
- Michael Conley
St. Bonaventure University - Quentin King-Shepard
St. Bonaventure University - Soquania Henry
St. Bonaventure University - Usman Asif
St. Bonaventure University - Althea Bauernschmidt
St. Bonaventure University
Abstract
Two separate, but related, lines of research have shown that animacy (VanArsdall, Nairne, Pandierada, & Blunt, 2013) and survival processing (Nairne, Thompson, & Pandierada, 2007) improve memory for words. This experiment evaluated whether animate survival scenarios produced greater recall than inanimate survival scenarios.
Human Learning and Memory
