survival processing / traitement de survie
Group: Human, Psychology
Groupe : Homme, Psychologie
Definition: The processing of stimuli (e.g. words) according to their value in a context of ancestral survival.
Définition : Traitement de stimuli (par exemple, des mots) en fonction de leur valeur dans un contexte ancestral de survie.
Broader term: memory process
Terme générique : processus mnésique
Related terms: episodic memory, adaptive memory, animacy effect, reproduction processing effect, survival processing effect, zombie effect
Termes associés : mémoire épisodique, mémoire adaptative, effet d'animacité, effet du traitement lié à la reproduction, effet du traitement de survie, effet zombie
Editorial note: An example of a survival scenario (Nairne et al., 2007, p. 264) : "In this task, we would like you to imagine that you are stranded in the grasslands of a foreign land, without any basic survival materials. Over the next few months, you’ll need to find steady supplies of food and water and protect yourself from predators. We are going to show you a list of words, and we would like you to rate how relevant each of these words would be for you in this survival situation. Some of the words may be relevant and others may not—it’s up to you to decide."
Note éditoriale : Exemple de scénario de survie (Nairne et al., 2007, p. 264) : « Dans cette tâche, nous aimerions que vous imaginiez que vous êtes bloqué dans les prairies d’un pays étranger, sans aucun matériel de survie de base. Au cours des prochains mois, vous devrez trouver un approvisionnement régulier en nourriture et en eau et vous protéger des prédateurs. Nous allons vous montrer une liste de mots, et nous aimerions que vous évaluiez la pertinence de chacun de ces mots pour vous dans cette situation de survie. Certains mots peuvent être pertinents et d’autres non – c’est à vous de décider. »
Selected bibliography: Bonin, P., Thiebaut, G., & Méot, A. (2024). Ratings of survival-related dimensions for a set of 732 words, their relationships with other psycholinguistic variables and memory performance. Current Psychology, 43(9), 8200–8218. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04979-2 [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed], Bonin, P., & Bugaiska, A. (2014). « Survivre pour se souvenir ». Une approche novatrice de la mémoire humaine : la mémoire adaptative. L’Année Psychologique, 114(3), 571–610. https://doi.org/10.4074/S0003503314003066 [Study type: literature review / Access: open], Cook, A. M., Klin, C. M., & Westerman, D. L. (2023). Surviving with story characters : What do we remember? Memory & Cognition, 51(6), 1303–1316. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-022-01391-2 [Study type: empirical study / Access: open], Nairne, J. S., Thompson, S. R., & Pandeirada, J. N. S. (2007). Adaptive memory: Survival processing enhances retention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33(2), 263–273. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.33.2.263 [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed], Nairne, J. S. (2010). Adaptive memory: Evolutionary constraints on remembering. In B. H. Ross (Ed.), Psychology of Learning and Motivation (Vol. 53, p. 1–32). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0079-7421(10)53001-9 [Study type: literature review / Access: closed], Schwartz, B. L., Howe, M. L., Toglia, M. P., & Otgaar, H. (Eds.). (2013). What is adaptive about adaptive memory? Oxford University Press. [Study type: literature review / Access: closed], Scofield, J. E., Buchanan, E. M., & Kostic, B. (2018). A meta-analysis of the survival-processing advantage in memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25(3), 997–1012. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-017-1346-0 [Study type: meta-analysis / Access: open]
Dataset citations: Cook, A. (2022, November 3). Surviving with Story Characters: What Do We Remember? https://osf.io/n5dgw, Dewhurst, S., Anderson, R. J., O’Connor, R., & Dean, G. (2023, January 17). Survival processing and picture memory. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/HXQMF, Forester, G. (2020). Adaptive memory: Independent effects of survival processing and reward motivation on memory [Data set]. OSF. https://osf.io/tdyrb/, Nieuwenstein, M., Hansen-Manguikian, L., Yildirim, B., & Ainsworth, S. (2021). Understanding the survival processing advantage for memory [Data set]. OSF. https://osf.io/tcevb/, Rummel, J., Kroneisen, M., & Wöstenfeld, F. O. (2019). Survival processing and serial recall [Data set]. OSF. doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/U5MK3, Saraiva, M., Garrido, M. V., & Pandeirada, J. N. S. (2019). Survival processing effect in L1 and L2 [Data set]. OSF. https://osf.io/hqfje/, Scofield, J. E., Buchanan, E. M., & Kostic, B. (2016). A Meta-analysis of the Survival Processing Advantage in Memory [Data set]. OSF. https://osf.io/6sd8e/, Surviving in a second language: Survival processing effect in memory of bilinguals. (2020). [Data set]. Taylor & Francis. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.13186584.v1, Wang, J. (2018). Survival processing and production effect [Data set]. OSF. https://osf.io/ntvb7/, Wöstenfeld, F. O., Suhaib, A., Kroneisen, M., & Rummel, J. (2019). Does the survival processing memory advantage translate to serial recall? [Data set]. Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.2593683