Exploring Source Memory to Understand the Mechanisms of JOL Reactivity
Tue-HS3-Talk V-04
Presented by: Vanessa Loaiza
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