Chapter 9 Metamemory

Question 1

Our knowledge and awareness of our own cognitive processes

Answer 1

Metacognition

Question 2

Our knowledge and awareness of our own memory processes

Answer 2

Metamemory

Question 3

Our ability to reflect on and become aware of what we know and do not know

Answer 3

Monitoring

Question 4

Self-regulation directed at memory

Answer 4

Metacognitive control

Question 5

Our ability to regulate our learning or retrieval based upon our own monitoring

Answer 5

Control (in metamemory)

Question 6

Estimates made before studying an item of how likely it will be remembered and how difficult it will be to learn

Answer 6

Ease of learning judgments

Question 7

Determinations made during study of whether the item has been learned already

Answer 7

Judgment of learning

Question 8

Estimations of the likelihood that an un recalled item will be recognized

Answer 8

Feeling of knowing judgments

Question 9

Feeling that unrecalled item will be recalled soon

Answer 9

Tip of tongue states

Question 10

Estimations that a retrieve answer is indeed correct

Answer 10

Retrospective confidence judgments

Question 11

The judgments we make are based on the same processes that allow us to remember in the first place metamemory judgments measure the strength of a stored memory even if it cannot be recalled

Answer 11

Direct access theories

Question 12

We use a variety of clues cues tricks and heuristics to estimate the strength of an item in memory which we cannot measure directly

Answer 12

Indirect or inferential theories

Question 13

Stored information about the cue or the degree to which we recognize that the Cue influence or metamemory judgment about the to be remembered target

Answer 13

Cue familiarity

Question 14

We retrieve information related to a target that can influence or metamemory judgment about learning or remembering the target

Answer 14

Retrieval of related information

Question 15

All information present in our memory

Answer 15

Availability

Question 16

The part over stored memories that we can retrieve under present conditions

Answer 16

Accessibility

Question 17

Upon seeing a target word and cue word the participant judges The likelihood of leader being able to recall the target when presented with its Cue

Answer 17

Cue target judgments of learning

Question 18

Upon seeing only a cue word the participant judges the likelihood of later being able to recall the target when presented with its Cue

Answer 18

Cue only judgments of learning

Question 19

The decision participant makes about which items to study during an experiment

Answer 19

Allocation of study time

Question 20

When extra study does not result in the mastery of difficult items

Answer 20

Labor in vain

Question 21

A theory of metamemory that unadopted strategy is to study the easiest items among those that have not yet been learned

Answer 21

Region of proximal learning

Question 22

Participant develop a plan of study that takes into account both study goals and study constraints

Answer 22

Agenda based regulation

Question 23

Over estimating the likelihood that a to be learned item or set of items will be remembered

Answer 23

Overconfidence

Question 24

The feeling that in the situation has been experienced before

Answer 24

Déjà vu experience