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Kroneisen, Meike; Erdfelder, Edgar – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
Nairne, Thompson, and Pandeirada (2007) discovered a strong and rather general memory advantage for word material processed in a survival-related context. One possible explanation of this effect conceives survival processing as a special form of encoding: Nature specifically "tuned" our memory systems to process and remember…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Processing, Replication (Evaluation), Evolution
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Weiss, Matthias; Dreesmann, Daniel C. – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2014
Biological evolution still lacks representation in school, especially below high school level. In order to find new implications that could help achieve significant improvement in teaching evolution, twelve expert interviews with both renowned researchers and experienced science teachers were conducted. Results of the comparison between the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evolution, Science Instruction, Scientists