Recasting the Feeling of Knowing – A Meta-analysis Study Using Probability Models
Date Issued
2011
Date
2011
Author(s)
Tseng, Ling-Ming
Abstract
Feeling of Knowing (FOK) judgments refer to the feelings an individual has regarding his or her knowledge for a specific subject, more specifically whether or not that knowledge exists within memory. And the study of accuracy of FOK is to evaluate how accurate the feeling reflect the actual presence or absence within memory. Corresponding to the recall-judgment-recognition paradigm, psychologists used the statistical testing, the correlation coefficients, and the conditional probabilities as the index of the accuracy of FOK. However, none of these indexes can purely and stably reflect the accuracy of FOK. I review and analysis the deficits of these indexes from logical, methodological, and cognitive processing viewpoints, and propose a new probability model. In this model, the accuracy of FOK is viewed as a parameter of a latent variable. According to the meta-analysis, this parameter can differentiate normal and amnestic patient subject, and also duplicate several past researches. It shows that the modeling technic is a more proper way for analysis the accuracy of FOK.
Subjects
the feeling of knowing
metamemory
the RJR paradigm
multinomial processing tree model
Type
thesis
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