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Metcalfe, Janet; Schwartz, Bennett L.; Bloom, Paul A. – Grantee Submission, 2017
Theories of study time allocation and of curiosity suggest that people are most engaged with and want to devote their time to materials that are not completely mastered but also are not so difficult that they might be impossible. Their curiosity is thought to be triggered by items that are almost known, or are in what is sometimes called theregion…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Metacognition, Personality Traits, Response Style (Tests)
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Metcalfe, Janet; Finn, Bridgid – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2008
Two processes are postulated to underlie delayed judgments of learning (JOLs)--cue familiarity and target retrievability. The two processes are distinguishable because the familiarity-based judgments are thought to be faster than the retrieval-based processes, because only retrieval-based JOLs should enhance the relative accuracy of the…
Descriptors: Cues, Familiarity, Prediction, Memory