PSYC 3265 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Retrospective Memory, Solomon Shereshevsky, Prospective Memory
9 Nov 2016
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The awareness of ones own memory; refers to both the contents of memory as well as how to control it. Targets the memory traces that people make judgements about; cues questions or. Metamemory judgements are based on the familiarity of the info in a cue, based on this hypothesis: the more familiar it is, the more likely people will judge that the knowledge is memory. Competition hypothesis knowledge is in memory the more likely that the info is known: the intensity of the activated memory traces, including the ease of access, how. People infer what is in memory based on info at hand, including partial retrievals. Two sources of info used to make these inferences: the amount of info activated when a judgement is made the more that is activated specific the info is, etc. The stronger the retrieved info, the more likely the.
