Hanczakowski, M., Zawadzka, K. and Cockcroft-McKay, C. (2014) Feeling of knowing and restudy choices. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 21 (6). pp. 1617-1622. ISSN 1069-9384
Abstract
Feeling-of-knowing judgments (FOK-Js) reflect people’s confidence that they would be able to recognize a currently unrecallable item. Although much research has been devoted to the factors determining the magnitude and accuracy of FOK-Js, much less work has addressed the issue of whether FOK-Js are related to any form of metacognitive control over memory processes. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that FOK-Js are related to participants’ choices of which unrecallable items should be restudied. In three experiments, we showed that participants tend to choose for restudy items with high FOK-Js, both when they are explicitly asked to choose for restudy items that can be mastered in the restudy session (Exps. 1a and 2) and when such specific instructions are omitted (Exp. 1b). The study further demonstrated that increasing FOK-Js via priming cues affects restudy choices, even though it does not affect recall directly. Finally, Experiment 2 showed the strategy of restudying unrecalled items with high FOK-Js to be adaptive, because the efficacy of restudy is greater for these items than for items with low FOK-Js. Altogether, the present findings underscore an important role of FOK-Js for the metacognitive control of study operations.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Psychonomic Society, Inc. 2014. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Metacognition; Feeling of knowing; Restudy |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Psychology (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 15 Sep 2017 11:39 |
Last Modified: | 24 Mar 2018 14:10 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-014-0619-0 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer Verlag |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.3758/s13423-014-0619-0 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:120793 |