Abstract
This study investigated the heuristic bases of judgments of learning (JOLs). JOLs were elicited either immediately after study or after a shorter or longer delay. In Experiment 1, the effects of encoding fluency (inferred from self-paced study time) on both JOLs and recall decreased with JOL delay, whereas those of retrieval fluency (inferred from the success and latency of pre-JOL retrieval) increased. In this experiment, JOLs (as well as recall) decreased with increasing study time, presumably under the heuristic that items requiring more time to study are less likely to be recalled. In contrast, in Experiment 2, in which study time was experimentally manipulated, JOLs as well as recall actually increased with study time. In both experiments JOLs increased with retrieval fluency. The results demonstrate that JOLs are based on the flexible and adaptive utilization of different mnemonic cues according to their relative validity in predicting memory performance.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 478-492 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Journal of Memory and Language |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - May 2005 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This research was carried out at the Institute of Information Processing and Decision Making, University of Haifa. It was supported by a grant from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the framework of German-Israeli Project Cooperation (DIP). We are grateful to Rinat Gil for her help in conducting the experiments, and to Limor Sheffer for her advice in the statistical analyses.
Keywords
- Delayed JOLs
- Encoding fluency
- Heuristics
- Judgments of learning
- Metacognition
- Retrieval fluency
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
- Language and Linguistics
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
- Linguistics and Language
- Artificial Intelligence