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The Contribution of Past Test Performance, New Learning, and Forgetting to Judgment-of-Learning Resolution
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Ariel, Robert
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Year and Degree
2010, MA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Psychological Sciences.
Abstract
When people judge their learning of items across study-test trials, their accuracy in discriminating between learned and unlearned items improves on the second trial. We examined the source of this improvement by estimating the contribution of three factors—memory for past test performance (MPT), new learning, and forgetting—to accuracy on trial 2. In Experiment 1, during two trials, participants studied paired associates, made a judgment of learning (JOL) for each one, and were tested. During the second study trial, we manipulated two variables: When the JOL was made (either immediately before or after studying an item) and whether participants were told the outcome of the previous recall attempt. In Experiment 2, the same procedure was used with a one week retention interval between study and test on trial 2. In both experiments, JOL resolution was higher on trial 2 then on trial 1. Fine-grained analyses of JOL magnitude and decomposition of resolution revealed several important findings. First, MPT contributed most to boosts in JOL magnitude and improvements in resolution across trials. Second, JOLs and subsequent resolution were sensitive to new learning and forgetting, but only when participants’ judgments were made after and not before study. Thus, JOLs appear to integrate information from multiple factors, and these factors jointly contribute to JOL resolution.
Committee
John Dunlosky (Advisor)
Maria Zaragoza (Committee Member)
William Merriman (Committee Member)
John Gunstad (Committee Member)
Pages
43 p.
Subject Headings
Psychology
Keywords
Metacognition
;
Judgments of Learning
;
Monitoring
;
memory for past tests
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Ariel, R. (2010).
The Contribution of Past Test Performance, New Learning, and Forgetting to Judgment-of-Learning Resolution
[Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1277315741
APA Style (7th edition)
Ariel, Robert.
The Contribution of Past Test Performance, New Learning, and Forgetting to Judgment-of-Learning Resolution.
2010. Kent State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1277315741.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Ariel, Robert. "The Contribution of Past Test Performance, New Learning, and Forgetting to Judgment-of-Learning Resolution." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1277315741
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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