PSY372H1 Lecture Notes - Metacognition
Document Summary
Sophisticated judgments based on our metacognition: awareness of how our memory works, monitoring, controlling behavior , metamemory isn"t that good actually, doesn"t correlate to actual memory, primates have their own awareness of memory, animals also have this ability, accuracy of metamemory, accurate = you don"t know sth you don"t know/you know sth you know, failure = you know sth you don"t know, metamemory judgements (2 major theories, accessibility hypothesis (indirect access to memory, since you"re cues to retrieve) base on info at hand, including partial retrieval, evaluate the strength of that info without actually retrieving it; depends on how many info comes up; more info coming up, more likely you have that info in memory; stronger the retrieved info, more likely it is in memory, cue familiarity hypothesis (indirect) judgements are inferred based on familiarity of the cue/domain of the question greater familiarity, higher likelihood; direct access is so inaccurate & often people use heuristics.
