Metamnemonic Control Over the Discriminability of Memory Evidence: A Signal Detection Analysis of Warning Effects in the Associative List Paradigm

Autor/inn/en	Starns, Jeffrey J.; Lane, Sean M.; Alonzo, Jill D.; Roussel, Cristine C.
Titel	Metamnemonic Control Over the Discriminability of Memory Evidence: A Signal Detection Analysis of Warning Effects in the Associative List Paradigm
Quelle	In: Journal of Memory and Language, 56 (2007) 4, S.592-607 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0749-596X
DOI	10.1016/j.jml.2006.08.013
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Models; Memory; Reading Skills; Information Retrieval; Association (Psychology); Learning Strategies; Mnemonics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Analogiemodell; Gedächtnis; Reading skill; Lesefertigkeit; Assoziation; Learning methode; Learning techniques; Lernmethode; Lernstrategie; Mnemotechnik
Abstract	According to signal detection theory (SDT), retrieval warnings may decrease false memory in the associative list paradigm either by inducing a conservative criterion shift or by decreasing the amount of evidence that critical theme words were studied. Fitting a SDT model to 12 existing datasets revealed suggestive evidence that warnings impact critical theme evidence, and two new experiments confirmed this conclusion. We argue that this pattern of results is consistent with warned participants relying less on relational and more on item-specific forms of information at retrieval as compared to unwarned participants. We conclude that warnings enhance metamnemonic awareness, thus allowing participants to select a retrieval strategy that capitalizes on discriminative forms of evidence. (Author).
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