Effects Of Perceptual Fluency On Memory Monitoring And Its Developmental Characteristics

Perceptual fluency refers to the learners' subjective experience of the difficulty of information processing along with the cognitive process.In recent years,more and more studies have explored and confirmed the effect of perceptual fluency on memory monitoring and control,but there may be some beliefs.The purpose of this study is to isolate the role of belief.Based on previous studies,four experiments in two studies will further explore the effect of perceptual fluency on memory monitoring and control and explore its development characteristics,so as to provide more powerful evidence for the establishment of the fluency hypothesis.Study 1 includes experiment 1 and experiment 2.Experiment 1 took college students as subjects,isolated belief by material setting and priming word flash,and explored the effect of perceptual fluency on memory monitoring(judgment of learning);Experiment 2 took primary and middle school students in grade 3,grade 5 and grade 7 as subjects to explore the development characteristics of this effect.Study 2 includes experiment 3 and experiment 4.Experiment 3 took college students as subjects,isolated the role of belief in the same way as experiment 1,and explored the effect of perceptual fluency on memory control(first item selection);Experiment 4 took primary and middle school students in grade 3,grade 5 and grade 7 as subjects to explore the development characteristics of this effect.The results are as follows:(1)Experiment 1 found that in the absence of belief,perceptual fluency affects the individual's memory monitoring(judgment of learning)process.The judgment of learning and judgment of learning accuracy of high-fluency words are significantly higher than those of low-fluency words.This shows that perceptual fluency not only affects the subjects' confidence in the learning process,but also affects the accuracy of memory monitoring;(2)Experiment 2 found that the judgment of learning and judgment of learning accuracy of different fluency words showed significant differences in all grades.High-fluency words were significantly higher than low-fluency words,and the influence had no significant development and change between grades.This shows that the memory monitoring and it's accuracy of subjects in all grades are affected by perceptual fluency to the same extent;(3)Experiment 3 found that in the absence of belief,the priority proportion of high-fluency words was significantly higher than that of low-fluency words.This shows that perceptual fluency affects the process of memory control;(4)Experiment 4 found that the preference ratio of high fluency words was significantly higher than that of low fluency words.In terms of the difference in the priority selection proportion,the grade 3 and grade 5 subjects were significantly lower than the grade 7 and college students.This also shows that perceptual fluency restricts memory control;This constraint is a critical period of development in grades 5 to 7.The conclusions are as follows: With the belief role isolated,perceptual fluency affects both memory monitoring and memory control in learners,supporting the fluency hypothesis.The developmental characteristics of this effect are as follows: The effect of perceptual fluency on memory monitoring and its accuracy has been stable across ages since the grade 3,and there was no significant developmental change in each grade.The effect of perceptual fluency on memory control began in Grade 7 and developed significantly from grade 5 to grade 7.Thus,the effect of perceptual fluency on memory monitoring is earlier than the effect on memory control.