PSY372H1 Chapter Notes -Metamemory, Mnemonic, Prospective Memory
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Part 1: properties & theories: metcalfe: cue familiarity hypothesis. The more familiar the cue is, the more likely people will judge that the knowledge is in memory: koriat: accessibility hypothesis, more amount of info activated, more likely the info is known. Stronger the intensity of retrieved info, more likely the info is in memory: schreiber: competition hypothesis, metamemory judgements are greater with less competition (more competition, more difficult the retrieval) Judgements of learning (jols) = estimates for how well they have learned sth. Jols are poor because people have little conscious awareness of their own mental processes; we lack the ability to assess our own learning: monitoring-retrieval hypothesis. Jols are poor because people are assessing whether they can retrieve information. Jols are made soon after the info is encountered, since it"s still in working memory, people think the knowledge is better learned than it actually is.
