When Do We Know That We Do Not Know? An Examination of Metacognitive Processes in Visual Working Memory

Autor/inn/en	Krasnoff, Julia; Oberauer, Klaus
Titel	When Do We Know That We Do Not Know? An Examination of Metacognitive Processes in Visual Working Memory
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 49 (2023) 9, S.1376-1395 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Krasnoff, Julia)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
DOI	10.1037/xlm0001211
Schlagwörter	Metacognition; Short Term Memory; Visual Perception; Color; Cues; Guessing (Tests); College Students; Foreign Countries; Confidence Testing; Switzerland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Meta cognitive ability; Meta-cognition; Metakognitive Fähigkeit; Metakognition; Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Colour; Farbbezeichnung; Farbe; Stichwort; Erraten; Collegestudent; Ausland; Schweiz
Abstract	This work investigates how people make judgments about the content of their visual working memory (VWM). Some studies on long-term memory suggest that people base those metacognitive judgments on the outcome of a retrieval attempt. In contrast, Son and Metcalfe (2005) observed that people identify poorly remembered items immediately, presumably by the lack of familiarity for the retrieval cue. We tested these two hypotheses in the context of metacognition in VWM. In three experiments, we investigated participants' response behavior in a color reproduction task with a hidden color wheel. With this procedure, participants must search for the intended response, starting from a random color. We assumed that instant awareness of the inability to retrieve an information would be reflected in selecting the first, random color, rather than search for a particular color in the wheel. Although participants provided a substantial number of low-confidence responses, results of an adapted mixture modeling analysis yielded little evidence for quick guesses. Rather, participants consistently searched for a color (even with unfamiliar retrieval cues in Experiment 2), and only quickly guessed when being cued with objects at test that were not previously presented (Experiment 3). We conclude that people usually engage in retrieval attempts for providing judgments about their VWM, even when information is poorly remembered. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01