Metamemory in strategy selection: Evidence for a dissociation in familiarity-based judgments between semantics and item activation strength

Mckenzie-Kerr, Alastair and Macken, William John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2928-656X 2006. Metamemory in strategy selection: Evidence for a dissociation in familiarity-based judgments between semantics and item activation strength. Presented at: CogSci 2006: The 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 26-29 July 2006. Proceedings of CogSci 2006: The 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1806-1810.

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Abstract

Two experiments investigated the metamemorial factors which influence rapid strategy selections (retrieve or calculate) in double-digit mental arithmetic problems. Using the GameShow paradigm (L. M. Reder & F. E. Ritter, 1992; C. D. Schunn et al., 1997) participants first predicted (within 850 ms) which strategy they would use to solve a sum and then solved the sum. Results revealed that predicted strategy selections were accurate, and that selection of the retrieve strategy was positively related to problem familiarity (L. M. Reder & F. E. Ritter, 1992; C. D. Schunn, et al., 1997), but not to the answer’s familiarity (but see C. A. Lebiere & J. R. Anderson 1998; G. D. Logan, 2002). Furthermore, the semantic properties of a problem (e.g., whether both numbers are divisible by 5 or 10) appeared to dictate strategy selection. The evidence presented supports an account of strategy selection in which retrieve and calculate selections are determined by pre-retrieval indications of memorial strength derived from the familiarity of the problem (see also L. M. Reder & F. E. Ritter, 1992; C. D. Schunn et al., 1997) but also from semantic level representations of the problem’s properties.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Date Type:	Publication
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Schools:	Psychology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Strategy Selection; Metacognition; Problem Solving; Familiarity; Semantic Memory; ACT-R
Publisher:	Cognitive Science Society
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Last Modified:	20 Oct 2022 09:41
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/32820

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