How can I use it? The role of functional fixedness in the survival-processing paradigm
Author: Kroneisen, Meike; Kriechbaumer, Michael; Kamp, Siri-Maria; Erdfelder, Edgar Description: After imagining being stranded in the grasslands of a foreign land without any basic survival material and rating objects with respect to their relevance in this situation, participants show superior memory performance for these objects compared to a control scenario. A possible mechanism responsible for this memory advantage is the richness and distinctiveness with which information is encoded in the survival-scenario condition. When confronted with the unusual task of thinking about how an object can be used in a life-threatening…
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