Perceptual Fluency Affects Judgments of Learning Non-analytically and Analytically Through Beliefs About How Perceptual Fluency Affects Memory

Frontiers in Psychology

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Zhiwei Wang¹  Chunliang Yang²  Wenbo Zhao¹  Yingjie Jiang¹ 

[1] School of Psychology, Northeast Normal University;Institute of Developmental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University

关键词: judgments of learning;    perceptual fluency;    beliefs;    font size effect;    metamemory;    metacognition;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2020.552824

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Perceptual fluency is generally thought to affect judgments of learning (JOLs) non-analytically. However, some studies suggested that perceptual fluency may also affect JOLs analytically based on beliefs about the relationship between perceptual fluency and memory performance. The present study aimed to investigate how perceptual fluency affects JOLs. In Experiment 1, participants performed a continuous identification task and a JOLs task to determine whether perceptual fluency affects JOLs. In Experiment 2, we manipulated participants’ beliefs about how perceptual fluency affects memory to explore whether perceptual fluency affects JOLs through belief-based analysis. In Experiment 3, we explored whether participants who believed neither perceptual fluency nor font size affected memory performance still offered higher JOLs to large words than to small words, to explore whether perceptual fluency affects JOLs non-analytically. In Experiment 4, participants performed a continuous identification-JOLs task, and then they performed an observation task to measure their beliefs about fluency and memory. The results of the four experiments suggested that perceptual fluency affects JOLs both non-analytically and analytically based on beliefs about the relationship between perceptual fluency and memory performance.

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