Phrasing Questions in Terms of Current (not future) Knowledge Increases Preferences for Cue-only Judgments of Learning (ICPSR 34645)

Version Date: May 15, 2013

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Principal Investigator(s):
Fredrik Jönsson, Stockholm University

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34645.v1

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Summary

Judgments of learning (JOLs) predict later recall more accurately when they are made, after a delay, based on a cue alone as compared to a cue and target. The investigation focussed on whether people recognize the benefit of cue-only responses when making JOLs and whether their preferences depend on how JOL prompts are phrased. Forty participants studied glossaries and then made delayed cue-only and cue-target JOLs. In one condition, where the JOL prompts were phrased as predictions of future memory performance, only 15 percent of the participants preferred the cue-only strategy, replicating Jönsson and Kerimi (2011). In another condition, where JOLs were phrased as assessments of the current state of learning, 55 percent preferred the cue-only strategy. To conclude, students do not seem to recognize the value of cue-only JOLs, but they picked the superior JOL strategy more often when the JOL phrasing focused their attention on their knowledge state at the time of the JOL, rather than on a future state.

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Jönsson, Fredrik. Phrasing Questions in Terms of Current (not future) Knowledge Increases Preferences for Cue-only Judgments of Learning. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2013-05-15. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34645.v1

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Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

2011-01-01 -- 2011-03-31

Date of Collection

2011-01-01 -- 2011-03-31

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Accidental sampling.

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Cross-sectional

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University students.

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individual

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100 percent

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Original Release Date

2013-05-15

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2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:

  • Jönsson, Fredrik. Phrasing Questions in Terms of Current (not future) Knowledge Increases Preferences for Cue-only Judgments of Learning. ICPSR34645-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2013-05-15. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34645.v1

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