Survival Processing Improves Memory of minority primary students

Abstract

This electronic document is a “live” template. The various components of your paper [title, text, heads, etc.] are already defined on the style sheet, as illustrated by the portions given in this document. It is believed that humans tend to have better memory performance under survival conditions, and this survival advantage effect of memory should be beneficial to human survival and reproduction according to evolutionary psychology. In this research, primary school students from the Han ethnic group and special “the directly-entering-socialism ethnic groups” were used as participants, and vocabularies and pictures were used as learning materials. Using the unconscious learning research paradigm and variance analysis methods, the research found that the pupils of the Nu ethnic minority and the Drung ethnic minority, like those of the Han ethnic group, had better memory performance in survival condition than other condition. That is, there was a memory survival advantage effect. In addition, the memory performance of the pupils of the Nu ethnic minority was better than that of the pupils of the Drung ethnic minority and the Han ethnic group on the whole. The participants’ memory performance of the picture material was better than that of the vocabulary material.