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McCabe, David P.; Soderstrom, Nicholas C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2011
Five experiments were conducted to examine whether the nature of the information that is monitored during prospective metamemory judgments affected the relative accuracy of those judgments. We compared item-by-item judgments of learning (JOLs), which involved participants determining how confident they were that they would remember studied items,…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Memory, Accuracy, Prediction
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Kornell, Nate; Bjork, Robert A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2009
The dynamics of human memory are complex and often unintuitive, but certain features--such as the fact that studying results in learning--seem like common knowledge. In 12 experiments, however, participants who were told they would be allowed to study a list of word pairs between 1 and 4 times and then take a cued-recall test predicted little or…
Descriptors: Memory, Learning, Metacognition, Beliefs
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Brady, Timothy F.; Konkle, Talia; Alvarez, George A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2009
The information that individuals can hold in working memory is quite limited, but researchers have typically studied this capacity using simple objects or letter strings with no associations between them. However, in the real world there are strong associations and regularities in the input. In an information theoretic sense, regularities…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Memorization, Probability, Organizations (Groups)