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Grasslands Scenarios

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The proposed research project aims to investigate in what ways curiosity affects thinking about the function of an object. Grasslands scenarios are used in the studies of adaptive memory since they provoke similar situations to the ones our evolutionary ancestors faced. Researchers in this field try to understand how evolution might have forged human memory. A way to look at this hypothesis is through the grassland scenarios as they evoke survival problems; finding food, water and shelter. Divergent thinking, which is thinking creatively, has been associated with the phenomenon of adaptive memory. What about curiosity? Curiosity has been described by many as the burning desire to acquire knowledge or more information on a specific topic.

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