Journal
MEMORY & COGNITION
Volume 49, Issue 7, Pages 1405-1422Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-021-01170-5
Keywords
Metamemory; Judgments of learning; Pictures; Naturalistic scenes; Cue integration
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- University of Mannheim
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [UN 345/2-1, BR 2130/14-1]
- Margarete von Wrangell fellowship from the state of Baden-Wurttemberg
- Projekt DEAL
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The accuracy of metacognitive judgments for naturalistic pictures is supported by various cues, including intrinsic picture attributes and extrinsic aspects of the study situation. This demonstrates parallels between metamemory for naturalistic scenes and verbal materials.
Memory for naturalistic pictures is exceptionally good. However, little is known about people's ability to monitor the memorability of naturalistic pictures. We report the first systematic investigation into the accuracy and basis of metamemory in this domain. People studied pictures of naturalistic scenes, predicted their chances of recognizing each picture at a later test (judgment of learning, JOL), and completed a recognition memory test. Across three experiments, JOLs revealed substantial accuracy. This was due to people basing their JOLs on multiple cues, most of which predicted recognition memory. Identified cues include intrinsic picture attributes (e.g., peacefulness of scenes; scenes with or without persons) and extrinsic aspects of the study situation (e.g., presentation frequency; semantic distinctiveness of scenes with respect to the context). This work provides a better understanding of metamemory for pictures and it demonstrates close parallels between metamemory for naturalistic scenes and verbal materials.
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