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.
Exploring Source Memory to Understand the Mechanisms of JOL Reactivity
Tue-HS3-Talk V-04
Presented by: Vanessa Loaiza
Sarah Myers 1, Matthew Rhodes 1, Vanessa Loaiza 2
1 Colorado State University, 2 University of Essex
Past research has evaluated participants’ understanding of their memory by soliciting judgments of learning (JOLs). Importantly, JOLs sometimes change memory for the judged material, leading to JOL reactivity. The cue-strengthening account (Soderstrom et al., 2015) and changed-goal account (Mitchum et al., 2016) propose different mechanisms that lead to JOL reactivity. In the present accepted-in-principle registered report, we will collect measures that can provide further insight into these mechanisms. Specifically, participants will study related and unrelated word pairs in different colored fonts for a source recognition test. Across three experiments, the data will be analyzed using a hierarchical Bayesian model of multidimensional source memory to determine how JOLs impact item and source memory for related and unrelated items. In Experiment 2, we will also compare the effects of making JOLs to making judgments of relatedness (JORs), and Experiment 3 will examine how JOLs impact study time allocation. If pair relatedness causes reactivity as the cue-strengthening account predicts, then JOLs and JORs should strengthen item memory and specifically relatedness source memory for related items. Alternatively, if JOLs cause participants to shift their learning goals, then participants should prioritize related pairs while studying. This would result in JOLs increasing study time (Experiment 3) and strengthening item memory for related pairs but reducing study time and item memory for unrelated pairs. The results of these experiments will provide a more direct test of how JOLs affect specific details in memory and study decisions to better examine the mechanisms that drive JOL reactivity.
Keywords: JOL reactivity, metamemory, learning