Exam 9: Metamemory

Henry is learning American Sign Language (ASL).While conversing in ASL, he cannot remember the sign for "mosquito," though he is sure he knows it.This experience might be classified as tip-of-the-finger experience.

In Reder's game-show paradigm (Reder, 1987), participants must decide as quickly as possible if they know the answer.Using this paradigm, research has found that ______ judgments can occur faster than retrieval itself.

Judgments of forgetting are:

Explain retrospective confidence.

Gilda is visiting Israel for the first time.While passing by the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, she experiences a strong sense of ______.One likely explanation on this experience based on your textbook's discussion familiarity for the location probably arose from having seen the location in moves and documentaries.

Allocation of study time refers to:

Koriat and Goldsmith (1996) compared situations in which participants were forced to answer general-information questions to situation in which participants only answered those they felt confident that their retrieved answer was correct (free report).They found that:

Randolph chooses to study the easiest items because he wants to ensure he learns something and at least gets a C on the exam.Randolph's decision can be considered an example of:

Research shows that both college students and middle-school students:

Rhodes and Castel (2008) examined several perceptual features, such as the size of the words for which people were making JOLs.They found that:

Research on retrospective confidence and eyewitness memory show that:

Evidence suggests that the neural mechanisms responsible for TOTs are found to be:

The tip-of-the-pen phenomenon refers to:

The déjà vu experience refers:

Cleary et al. (2012) suspected that one potential cause of the déjà vu experience is misplaced familiarity.That is, a scene looks familiar because of its similarity to another scene that is in memory but that fails to be recalled.They tested this by:

In Reder's game-show paradigm (Reder, 1987), participants must decide as quickly as possible if they know the answer.Using this paradigm, research has found that:

Which of the following is false?

Gilda is visiting Israel for the first time.While passing by the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, she experiences a strong sense of déjà vu.What is one likely explanation on this experience based on your textbook's discussion?

Factors that increase or decrease confidence as measured by JOLs are:

Son and Metcalfe (2000) gave participants several short passages of text to study and told them to master all of them.The topics varied-some were about the use of bacteria in making beer whereas others were about Shakespeare's difficulties getting his first plays produced.Son and Metcalfe found that when participants had limited time, they concentrated on the easiest items to ensure that they would remember some materials.