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EXAMINING THE USE OF SIMULATED ENVIRONMENTS ON MEMORY PROCESSING
University of West Florida
Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida
2012
Abstract
Survival processing is defined as our memory system processes survival relevant information more efficiently than information irrelevant to survival to enhance our reproductive chances (Nairne & Pandeirada, 2010). Previous studies relied on personal imagery of an environment to elicit a survival advantage and have never looked at the distinctiveness of the environment at the time of encoding. Distinctiveness, more importantly cue distinctiveness, is a deep processing technique where we use different stimuli to make relationships between cues so that they will be easier to remember. The current study used virtual reality (VR, i.e., Holodeck) to control for the distinctiveness of an environment at the time of encoding words. The three environments were (a) mars- no distinctiveness, (b) Africa- some distinctiveness, and (c) city- very distinctive. The experiment was also ran in a classroom setting to see if we would get the same survival processing advantage seen in previous experiments. Results were expected to reveal a survival processing advantage in the Holodeck compared to the classroom because of a visual distinctive image. However, findings did not support survival processing in the Holodeck and that maybe the survival processing advantage diminishes when a distinctive image of the environment is displayed before the participant.
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- Title
- EXAMINING THE USE OF SIMULATED ENVIRONMENTS ON MEMORY PROCESSING
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Publisher
- University of West Florida
- Format
- text
- Copyright
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
- Identifiers
- 99380090738106600
- Academic Unit
- Psychology
- Language
- English
- Awarding Institution
- University of West Florida; Master of Arts (MA)
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida