The Feeling-of-Knowing as a Judgment

Lories, Guy; Schelstraete, Marie‐Anne

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“…In literature on metamemory one comes across another type of metacognition, namely, metacognitive judgments. Metacognitive judgments are cognitive in nature (Koriat & Levi-Sadot, 1999;Leonasio & Nelson, 1990;Lories, Dardenne, & Yzerbyt, 1998;Lories & Schelstraete, 1998) and take various forms: for example, judgment of learning (Nelson, 1993) or judgment regarding source memory, i.e., where, when, and how we acquired a piece of information (Johnson, Hashtroudi, & Lindsay, 1993). One can also answer questions requiring estimates of other aspects of memory, i.e., how frequently or recently we dealt with something (Efklides, 1999).…”

Section: Characteristics Of Metacognitive Experiences and Metacognitimentioning

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Metacognitive Experiences in Problem Solving

Efklides

Trends and Prospects in Motivation Research

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INTRODUCTIONThis chapter focuses on metacognition and one particular aspect of it, namely, metacognitive experiences (ME). A question that immediately comes to mind is why metacognition, which is a cognitive phenomenon, is included in a book on motivation. First of all, the functional approach to motivation, which is basic in this book, requires the study of the interaction of motivation with cognition. Sorrentino and Higgins (1986) were pioneers in this approach, which gave significant insights in motivational research. However, cognition may take various forms and cannot be fully understood unless metacognition is taken into consideration. Metacognition has to do with awareness of cognition, that is, what we know about cognition, and is closely tied to consciousness and self-regulation. The question is if metacognition forms part of the mechanism that explains the operation of motivation and selfregulation, and if yes, what it accomplishes.One way of introducing metacognition into motivational research and theory is to ask if metacognition, as a dependent variable, is affected by motivational variables besides the cognitive ones, and, secondly, if metacognition, as independent variable, effects behavior and even one's affect. In the latter case, metacognition assumes motivational and/or self-regulatory power. In what follows, we shall provide evidence to support this double nature of metacognition, based on studies carried out in the School of Psychology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. We shall argue that metacognition, in the form of metacognitive experi- 297A.

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Section: Characteristics Of Metacognitive Experiences and Metacognitimentioning

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Metacognitive Experiences in Problem Solving

Efklides

Trends and Prospects in Motivation Research

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“…Adults who had been encouraged to attribute hypnotically induced feelings of uncertainty to the hypnotism rated their comprehension of a poem higher than did participants who were given no suggestion concerning the source of their uncertainty. Both Lories and Schelstraete (1998) and Koriat (1998) have suggested that feeling-of-knowing judgments are interpretations of cues associated with retrieval activities rather than products of direct introspective access. The feeling of knowing refers to a person's judgment of his or her ability to recall or recognize information that is not currently accessible.…”

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“…Recent models of metacognition view metacognitive judgments, such as the feeling of knowing, or judgments of certainty, as deriving from the interpretation of conscious cues (e.g., Koriat 1998;Lories and Schelstraete 1998;Nelson et al 1998). Nelson et al (1998) contend that preexisting concepts or principles are used to interpret subjective feelings.…”

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Phenomenological Awareness: Consciousness and the Development of Cognitive Monitoring

Pillow

2011

SpringerBriefs in Psychology

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“…General knowledge task and metamemoric assessment. The items consisted of 120 general knowledge questions, a French battery designed by Lories and Schelstraete (1998). The difficulty of the items varied throughout the test.…”

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“…The trace access model may account for correct FOK ratings, but it hardly explains the incorrect FOK ratings. According to the inferential process models, FOK is based on inferential processes in which certain cues are used to form a FOK judgment about the likelihood that the inaccessible target is known by the subject (Lories & Schelstraete, 1998;Metcalfe & Shimamura, 1994;Nelson and Narens, 1990). Inferential processes may be related to general properties of the question, such as the degree of familiarity with the overall theme (e.g., I know little about Australia) or the retrieval of relevant episodic information (e.g., remembering particular events occurring at the time of information acquisition) or to the products of the retrieval process itself.…”

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