The easily learned,easily remembered heuristic in children |
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Authors: | Asher Koriat Rakefet Ackerman Kathrin Lockl Wolfgang Schneider |
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Affiliation: | 1. University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel;2. University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany;3. University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany |
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Abstract: | A previous study with adults [Koriat, A. (2008a). Easy comes, easy goes? The link between learning and remembering and its exploitation in metacognition. Memory & Cognition, 36, 416–428] established a correlation between learning and remembering: items requiring more trials to acquisition (TTA) were less likely to be recalled than those requiring fewer trials. Furthermore, learners’ judgments of learning (JOLs) seemed to rely on the easily learned, easily remembered (ELER) heuristic, that items requiring fewer TTAs are more likely to be recalled. This study extended investigation of these effects to 2nd- and 4th-grade children. When the list included hard and easy paired-associates (Experiment 1, N = 40, 7–10 years), recall and JOL decreased with increasing TTAs for both grades, supporting the validity of the ELER heuristic and its utilization in monitoring one's own learning. When presented only with hard pairs (Experiment 2, N = 60, 7–10 years), however, 4th graders’ but not 2nd graders’ JOLs evidenced reliance on this heuristic. The results suggest an early development of metacognitive heuristics that incorporate information about the links between characteristics of the encoding process and subsequent remembering. |
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Keywords: | Metacognitive development Learning Judgments of learning Metacognitive heuristics Metamemory |
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