Psychological Development and Education ›› 2009, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (3): 61-67.

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The effect of mental loading on accuracy and bias of meta-memory monitoring

LI Jian1,2, YUAN Wen-dong1, LUO Fang1,2, DU Wei3   

  1. 1. School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875;
    2. Beijing Key Lab of Applied Experimental Psychology, Beijing 100875;
    3. China National Institute of Educational Research, Beijing 100088
  • Online:2009-07-15 Published:2009-07-15

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Abstract: The present study was intended to investigate the effect of mental loading on meta-memory monitoring.A Chinese character recalling task was administered to 41 graduate students in order to assess their prospective monitoring and retrospective monitoring.J udgment of learning(JOL)and judgment of confidence(JOC)were performed before or after the cognitive task.All responses were automatically recorded by the computer, while absolute accuracy, relative accuracy and monitoring bias were calculated as indexes.The SPSS 13.0 software was used for data analysis.The results showed:(1)When using gamma as the index of relative monitoring accuracy, the main effect of mental loading was significant in JOL.The accuracy declined with the increase of mental loading.(2)While using difference score as the index, absolute monitoring accuracy declined with the increase of mental loading both in JOL and JOC, but the main effect was stronger in JOL.(3)The monitoring bias changed from "No bias" to "Over confidence", then to "No bias", and finally to "Under confidence", as the mental loading was increasing gradually.

Key words: mental loading, meta-memory, monitoring, relative and absolute accuracy, bias

CLC Number: 

  • B844.2
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