Survival processing means that:
A)we remember the words we learned when we feel as if our lives are threatened, as in weapon focus.
B)people more prone to use deeper processing are more likely to survive evolutionarily.
C)focusing on the relevance of words to surviving in an imaginary grasslands leads to strong memory traces.
D)the more we study certain words, the more they will "survive" in memory.

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Survival processing studies have shown that when participants are asked to think about how they would use certain words in a hypothetical survival scenario (such as being stranded in a grasslands), they tend to remember those words better than when they are asked to perform other types of processing tasks, such as rhyming or superficial semantic processing. This suggests that focusing on the relevance of the words to survival leads to stronger memory traces.

Survival Processing Means That