"SOMETHING SIMILAR I’VE ALREADY LEARNED, THUS I EASILY WILL REMEMBER IT!": THE EASE-OF-PROCESSING HEURISTIC AS A SOURCE IN METAMEMORY JUDGMENTS UNDER PROACTIVE INTERFERENCE CONDITION

Title"SOMETHING SIMILAR I’VE ALREADY LEARNED, THUS I EASILY WILL REMEMBER IT!": THE EASE-OF-PROCESSING HEURISTIC AS A SOURCE IN METAMEMORY JUDGMENTS UNDER PROACTIVE INTERFERENCE CONDITION
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2014
AuthorsVoloshyna, V
JournalProblems of Psychology in the 21st Century
Volume8
Issue2
Start Page184-194
PaginationContinuous
Date PublishedDecember/2014
Type of ArticleOriginal article
ISSN2029-8587
Other NumbersICID: 1135343
Keywordsease-of-processing heuristic, metacognitive ability, metamemory judgments, proactive interference (PI)
Abstract

In line with some metamemory literature, people are unable to predict the influence of interference on their metacognitive ability to prognosticate future memory performance (Eakin, 2005). However, according to other researchers, there are certain circumstances in which an individual can predict the factors that restrict access to the target information in memory (Maki, 1999; Diaz & Benjamin, 2011). Henceforth, this study is aimed at investigating the ease of processing heuristics as a source of errors on the meta-level in terms of proactive interference (PI), as well as the conditions under which it is possible to avoid its negative impact on the accuracy of different types of metamemory judgments. To do this, we encouraged participants to make metamemory judgments (e.g., EOL, JOL) under the time pressure and without it (non-analytic and analytic groups) in two different conditions (interference and control). Our findings demonstrate that (i) fast metamemory judgments are based on ease-of-processing heuristics, which enhances the “illusion of knowing” (see Eakin, 2005); (ii) inferences during study allocation can diminish the effect of the “illusion of knowing” phenomenon. In addition, analytic inference leads to more accurate metamemory performance under PI condition. In addition, analytical metamemory judgments are more accurate under PI condition; also it should be concluded that, despite the fact that the primary source of information in making EOL judgments is ease-of-processing heuristics, in this process some other resources, analogical to JOL judgments, were involved.
URLhttp://oaji.net/articles/2014/444-1420790218.pdf
DOI10.33225/ppc/14.08.184
Original Publication«ЧТО-ТО ПОХОЖЕЕ Я УЖЕ УЧИЛ, С ЛЕГКОСТЬЮ ЗАПОМНЮ И ЭТО!»: ЭВРИСТИКА ЛЕГКОСТИ ОБРАБОТКИ КАК ИСТОЧНИК ИНФОРМАЦИИ СУЖДЕНИЙ МЕТАПАМЯТИ В УСЛОВИЯХ ПРОАКТИВНОЙ ИНТЕРФЕРЕНЦИИ
Refereed DesignationRefereed
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