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適応関連づけ処理が自由再生に及ぼす効果
2011 年 29 巻 2 号 p. 144-151
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2011 年 29 巻 2 号 p. 144-151
Nairne, Thompson, and Pandeirada (2007) demonstrated that processing words according to a grasslands survival scenario leads to better recall than using any other semantic processing. They named this effect adaptive memory. The present experiment examined whether fitness-relevant processing conditions, grassland survival processing, or spouse-choice processing, lead to better recall than other semantic processing conditions, using pleasant or self-reference processing. The results indicated that the recall of the participants was best in the grassland survival processing condition and was better in the spouse-choice processing condition than in the self-reference processing condition. Some caution is necessary if the spouse-processing is considered as fitnessrelevant, because there was not a significant difference between the self-reference processing condition and the pleasant processing condition. However, these results were discussed in the context of evolved human memory functions.
