Exam 9: Metamemory

Rhodes and Castel (2008) examined several perceptual features, such as the size of the words for which people were making JOLs.They found that the size of the font can artificially lower the JOLs given to studied items.

Which pattern do temporal-lobe amnesiacs show?

Rhodes and Tauber (2011) in a meta-analysis of the literature find that the monitoring dual-memories hypothesis accounts for a greater percentage of the delayed judgments of learning accuracy effect than does the ______ memory strength mechanism.

Research by John Dunlosky and others has shown that JOLs are more accurate when JOLs are made when on the cue of a ______ pair than when both the cue and the target are shown.

The region of proximal learning meAnswer:

Direct access theories refer to the idea that the ______ we make are based on the same processes that allow us to remember in the first place.

Research on retrospective confidence and eyewitness memory show that if a witness is highly confident that his or her memory is false, this is given substantial weight by juries.

Control processes in metamemory:

Sharlene, while studying, assesses the items she has been studying to determine if she has, in fact, learned them.This process of assessment is called metacognitive monitoring.

Describe agenda-based regulation.

Dunlosky and Ariel (2011) were concerned about habitual learning, in which people follow simple rules that are not necessarily predictive of performance.They found that:

Metacognitive control is most similar to which concept?

Dunlosky and Ariel (2011) were concerned about habitual learning, in which people follow simple rules that are not necessarily predictive of performance.They found that participants will often study the ______ item first rather than the easiest item not yet learned simply because their participants read from left to right.

Rhodes and Tauber (2011) in a meta-analysis of the literature find that the monitoring dual-memories hypothesis accounts for a greater percentage of the delayed judgments of learning accuracy effect than does:

Familiar cues can influence the strength of a feeling of knowing.This observation is consistent with which theory?

Metacognition refers to:

Sharlene, while studying, assesses the items she has been studying to determine if she has, in fact, learned them.This process of assessment is called:

Priming the cue in a cue-target pair has the feeling of knowing is lower for primed than unprimed items.

What effect does priming the cue in a cue-target pair has on the feeling of knowing?

Most of the neuroimaging research on metamemory suggests the important centers for metacognition in the brain are located in: