The Effects Of List Composition On Metacognitive Monitoring And Control:the Comparison Of Different Monitoring Judgments

What is the basis of monitoring judgments?Cue-utilization model has a comprehensive explanation of the basis of monitoring.Because of "comparative in nature",monitoring judgments tend to focus on the relative recallability of different items within a list(intrinsic cues)and are less sensitive to factors that affect overall performance(extrinsic cues).According to the Cue-utilization model,if the"comparative in nature" disappears,JOL is no longer influenced by the intrinsic cues.Researchers verified this hypothesis by presenting associative pairs in blocked list(the equivalent of pure list in list composition),discovering JOL is still affected by the intrinsic cues,questioned the Cue-utilization model.However,they did not compare the two situations in these studies.Considering the variety of monitoring judgment,it is necessary to take JOC into account.Previous studies ignored the effect of list composition on metacognitive control.This study is divided into two parts to solve the problems mentioned above.Experiment 1 examined the differences between JOL and JOC under different list composition.The design of Experiment 1 was a 2(relatedness:related pairs or unrelated pairs)X 2(list composition:blocked list or mixed list)mixed-model factorial with relatedness as a within-subject factor and list composition as a between-subjects factor.The results showed that the magnitude of JOL was lower and the relative accuracy was higher in mixed list than in blocked list.JOL's relative accuracy of unrelated pairs is significantly higher than that of related pairs.No other significant differences were found.Dual-process theories assume two possible bases of metacognitive judgments:experience-based and information-based.Monitoring information can be used as the basis for monitoring control.The design of Study 2 is similar to the Experiment 1.In Experiment 2a,subjects made JOL after fixed-time learning.So as to investigated the difference of degree in different list composition when people utilize information-based JOL to do metacognitive control.The results show that the pattern of the judgment level and relative accuracy are consistent with the results of Experiment 1.In terms of absolute accuracy,related pairs are significantly better than unrelated pairs in the restudy stage.The correlation coefficients of restudy items selection and JOL,as well as the allocation of restudy time and JOC in the mixed list were significantly higher than blocked list.No other significant differences were found.Experiment 2b mainly discusses the difference of degree in different list composition when people utilize experience-based JOC to do metacognitive control.The results found that it's consistent with the results of the previous two experiments in the magnitude of judgments.The magnitude of JOC was lower in mixed list than in blocked list in the restudy stage.In terms of absolute accuracy,related pairs are significantly better than unrelated pairs.The correlation coefficients of restudy items selection and JOC,as well as the allocation of restudy time and unrelated pairs' JOC in the mixed list were significantly higher than blocked list.No other significant differences were found.The main conclusions of the current study include:(1)Regardless of the list composition,the monitoring judgments' magnitude of related word pairs is higher than unrelated pairs.(2)The magnitude of JOL is lower and the relative accuracy is higher in the mixed list,compared with the blocked list.(3)Mixed list more utilized the information monitoring during selecting restudy items and allocating restudy time.