PSYCH 46A Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Knowledge Retrieval, Metamemory, Metacognition
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Def: our knowledge of our own cognitive process. Metamemory: awareness of our own memory process (ex knowing if we will remember a phone number just given) Monitoring: being able to reflect our abilities. Metamemory judgement:subjective and indicate whether they think they have learned a target memory. Acquisition: in advance learning (what we should have done lol, on going learning (what we doing now) If the participant cannot take an alternative perspective, they will indicate that sally has cause to believe, as the participant does, that the marble has moved. Cue-target jols: you see both the cue and the target when you make your jol. Cue only jols: you see only the cue when making the jol. *negative correlation between judgement of learning (jol) and study time. Labor in vain effect: participants with high jols remembered more items & still better at remembering easier ones. Students w/ 60 mins to study chose hardest passage (neg correlation)