Question 1

Distinguish between metacognition and metamemory.

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Question 2

Dunlosky and Ariel (2011) were concerned about habitual learning, in which people follow simple rules that are not necessarily predictive of performance.They found that participants will often study the ______ item first rather than the easiest item not yet learned simply because their participants read from left to right.

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Question 3

Gilda is visiting Israel for the first time.While passing by the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, she experiences a strong sense of ______.One likely explanation on this experience based on your textbook's discussion familiarity for the location probably arose from having seen the location in moves and documentaries.

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Question 4

Henry is learning American Sign Language (ASL).While conversing in ASL, he cannot remember the sign for "mosquito," though he is sure he knows it.This experience might be classified as tip-of-the-finger experience.

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The tip-of-the-finger experience refers to the feeling of knowing a word, but not being able to recall it at the moment, and this is exactly what Henry is experiencing while trying to remember the sign for "mosquito" in ASL.

Question 5

Judgments of remembering are given during learning and are predictions of whether an item being learned now will be remembered later.

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Judgments of remembering are typically made after learning, reflecting a person's belief or feeling about whether they have previously learned or encountered a specific item or information, not during the learning process.

Question 6

Metacognition refers to our knowledge and awareness of our own cognitive processes.

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Metacognition refers to our ability to think about and monitor our own cognitive processes, including our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors related to learning, problem-solving, and decision-making. It involves reflecting on our own thinking and problem-solving strategies, recognizing our strengths and weaknesses, setting goals and evaluating the effectiveness of our learning and problem-solving efforts. So, the given statement is true.

Question 7

Research by John Dunlosky and others has shown that JOLs are more accurate when JOLs are made when on the cue of a ______ pair than when both the cue and the target are shown.

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Question 8

The region of ______ learning means using an adaptive strategy to study those items that have not yet been learned but are not too difficult.

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Question 9

Explain cue-target judgments of learning.

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Question 10

Describe agenda-based regulation.

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Question 11

Familiar cues can influence the strength of a feeling of knowing.This observation is consistent with the ______ theory.

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Question 12

Rhodes and Tauber (2011) in a meta-analysis of the literature find that the monitoring dual-memories hypothesis accounts for a greater percentage of the delayed judgments of learning accuracy effect than does the ______ memory strength mechanism.

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Question 13

Direct access theories refer to the idea that the ______ we make are based on the same processes that allow us to remember in the first place.

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Question 14

Roscoe is appearing on a game show.If he remembers and answers a question right, he will win a large sum of money.Roscoe should employ metacognition strategies on answer he is unsure of by eliminating the incorrect answers that he knows are incorrect.

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Employing metacognition strategies such as eliminating known incorrect answers can increase the likelihood of selecting the correct answer and ultimately help Roscoe win the game show.

Question 15

In Shimamura's studies on temporal-lobe amnesiacs and Korsakoff's amnesiacs, there were differences in the pattern of deficits in the two groups.The two groups differ with respect to feeling of knowing accuracy in that the ______ amnesiacs could make accurate feeling-of-knowing judgments, whereas the Korsakoff's amnesiacs could not make accurate feeling-of-knowing judgments.

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Question 16

Son and Metcalfe (2000) showed that when participants had limited time to prepare for an exam, they would study ______, but when they had more time to prepare, they would study ______.

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Question 17

Describe indirect or inferential theories.

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Question 18

Explain the Region of Proximal Learning

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Question 19

In Reder's game-show paradigm (Reder, 1987), participants must decide as quickly as possible if they know the answer.Using this paradigm, research has found that ______ judgments can occur faster than retrieval itself.

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Question 20

Priming the cue in a cue-target pair has the feeling of knowing is lower for primed than unprimed items.

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Priming the cue in a cue-target pair typically increases the feeling of knowing for primed items compared to unprimed items, as the priming process makes the information more accessible or familiar, thereby enhancing the feeling of knowing.

Quiz 9: Metamemory