A community of Knowledge Flashcards
* taking 'cognitive credit' feeling you know something just because someone else knows it
What is externalism?
learning depends upon other people’s knowledge (and not just merely one’s own)
What is transactive-memory?
the memory of a group includes information shared between individuals
What does Wegner (1987) suggest couples do?
rely upon each others’ expertise to store and recall memory
What does Ward (2013) suggest people do to trivia questions?
People misattribute others’ responses to trivia questions to themselves
When do people recall less information (Sparrow, Liu, & Wegner, 2011)?
when they know it’s stored on a computer
What is the illusion of explanatory depth?
Individuals overestimate their knowledge of a topic until they are asked to explain it in greater detail. (e.t., Rozenblitt & Keil, 2002)
what is the community of knowledge?
- Perhaps people base their beliefs about their own knowledge on their “community of knowledge” (e.g., Wilson & Keil, 1998)
PEOPLE FAIL TO DISTINGUISH THEIR OWN KNOWLEDGE FROM OTHER PEOPLE’S KNOWLEDGE
What was the initial finding?
Individuals tend to report high on ‘how well do you understand how … works?’ when there is community knowledge in the text compared to when there’s no community knowledge.
What about secret / public community knowledge?
participants report higher understand with public community knowledge, then secret and then no community -> people believe they should know public information more / less of a chance of being challenged if the information is public
What are community knowledge by difficult?
Individuals reported they understood more when the extract had community knowledge and was difficult -> while difficult no community knowledge was the lowest
Easy -> community knowledge was relatively high as well, and no community was just slightly lower
What about when reducing floor effects / including nonsense - natural items?
Understanding was still increased with community knowledge but no sig difference
-> people believe they understand how it works from other people knowledge -> cannot distinguish their own knowledge from other people’s knowledge
