13:30 - 15:00
Tue-HS3-Talk V-
Tue-Talk V-
Room: HS3
Chair/s:
Nikoletta Symeonidou, Hilal Tanyas
Source memory is a cognitive process involved in remembering contextual features of information. This symposium will bring together five researchers who will present recent evidence obtained from various substantive research questions about source memory. First, Tanyas et al. give a talk entitled “Testing the Serial Processing Model of Item and Source Retrieval: Applying the Additive Factor Method to Source Monitoring” and ask whether retrieval processes for an item (e.g., what was said?) and its source (e.g., who said it?) operate serially or in parallel. Focusing on more applied source memory research, Ülker and Bodemer examine external source memory (also with the “who said what” paradigm) and knowledge acquisition in a pseudo-collaborative setting with their talk “Source Memory and Collaborative Learning: The Role of Group Composition and Conflicting Information”. Following this, Symeonidou and Kuhlmann give a presentation namely “Enhanced Source Memory for Emotional Sources: What Is the Role of Encoding Instructions?” where they investigate how encoding instructions influence source-emotionality effects on source memory by using multinomial modeling. The next talk is “Exploring Source Memory to Understand the Mechanisms of JOL Reactivity.” by Loaiza et al. By using a novel implementation of a hierarchical Bayesian model of multidimensional source memory, they query in their registered report, how the act of assessing one’s learning influences later memory. Finally, Niedziałkowska and Nieznański present their work entitled “How Does Cognitive Load Influence Recollection of True/False Information?” and report findings revealing that cognitive load impairs recollection of false information compared to true information.
Source memory and collaborative learning: The role of group composition and conflicting information
Tue-HS3-Talk V-02
Presented by: Oktay Ülker
Oktay Ülker, Daniel Bodemer
University of Duisburg-Essen
Source memory is important in collaborative learning scenarios: when learners receive new information from learning partners with differing knowledge-levels, remembering the source helps to better assess the reliability of information in retrospect. Moreover, learners sometimes receive information from partners which is conflicting with prior received information. This enhances source memory, as receiving conflicting information guides attention to sources. In a 2×2 between-subject experiment, we examined the effects of group composition (three partners with differing knowledge-levels vs. same knowledge-levels) and conflicting information (with conflict vs. without conflict) on source memory and knowledge acquisition in a pseudo-collaborative learning scenario (N = 128). Three bogus partners presented texts with information which either contradicted information participants received earlier or did not. Group composition and conflicting information did not influence knowledge acquisition, but both factors influenced source memory: analyzes with multinomial processing tree models revealed that participants better remembered which partner presented certain information in groups with differing knowledge-levels. High-knowledge and low-knowledge partners were remembered better than medium-knowledge partners. However, only the source memory advantage for high-knowledge partners was significant, partially suggesting that in collaborative learning, remembering which information might be right is rendered more useful than remembering which information might be wrong. Contrary to our hypothesis, source memory was worse in a context with conflicting information. Our findings contribute to a better understanding of context-dependent source memory and thus, consequently, to the question how remembering whether certain information might be right or wrong is adaptively prioritized in different contexts.
Keywords: Collaborative learning, Multinomial modeling, Source memory