Mendes, Pedro Simão ; Undorf, Monika (2022)
On the pervasive effect of word frequency in metamemory.
In: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 75 (8)
doi: 10.1177/17470218211053329
Artikel, Bibliographie
Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract)
Predictions of one's future memory performance—judgements of learning (JOLs)—are based on the cues that learners regard as diagnostic of memory performance. One of these cues is word frequency or how often words are experienced in the language. It is not clear, however, whether word frequency would affect JOLs when other cues are also available. The current study aims to close this gap by testing whether objective and subjective word frequency affect JOLs in the presence of font size as an additional cue. Across three experiments, participants studied words that varied in word frequency (Experiment 1: high and low objective frequency; Experiment 2: a whole continuum from high to low objective frequency; Experiment 3: high and low subjective and objective frequency) and were presented in a large (48pt) or a small (18pt) font size, made JOLs, and completed a free recall test. Results showed that people based their JOLs on both word frequency and font size. We conclude that word frequency is an important cue that affects metamemory even in multiple-cue situations.
| Typ des Eintrags: | Artikel |
|---|---|
| Erschienen: | 2022 |
| Autor(en): | Mendes, Pedro Simão ; Undorf, Monika |
| Art des Eintrags: | Bibliographie |
| Titel: | On the pervasive effect of word frequency in metamemory |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Publikationsjahr: | August 2022 |
| Titel der Zeitschrift, Zeitung oder Schriftenreihe: | Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology |
| Jahrgang/Volume einer Zeitschrift: | 75 |
| (Heft-)Nummer: | 8 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/17470218211053329 |
| URL / URN: | http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17470218211053329 |
| Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract): | Predictions of one's future memory performance—judgements of learning (JOLs)—are based on the cues that learners regard as diagnostic of memory performance. One of these cues is word frequency or how often words are experienced in the language. It is not clear, however, whether word frequency would affect JOLs when other cues are also available. The current study aims to close this gap by testing whether objective and subjective word frequency affect JOLs in the presence of font size as an additional cue. Across three experiments, participants studied words that varied in word frequency (Experiment 1: high and low objective frequency; Experiment 2: a whole continuum from high to low objective frequency; Experiment 3: high and low subjective and objective frequency) and were presented in a large (48pt) or a small (18pt) font size, made JOLs, and completed a free recall test. Results showed that people based their JOLs on both word frequency and font size. We conclude that word frequency is an important cue that affects metamemory even in multiple-cue situations. |
| Freie Schlagworte: | judgements of learning, metamemory, word frequency, font size, cue integration |
| Fachbereich(e)/-gebiet(e): | 03 Fachbereich Humanwissenschaften 03 Fachbereich Humanwissenschaften > Institut für Psychologie 03 Fachbereich Humanwissenschaften > Institut für Psychologie > Angewandte Kognitionspsychologie |
| Hinterlegungsdatum: | 17 Mai 2024 06:47 |
| Letzte Änderung: | 17 Mai 2024 06:47 |
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