The Effects of Retention Interval on Metacognitive Monitoring and Memory Accuracy
Category: Oral Presentation
Author(s): Ian Duque
Presenter(s): Ian Duque
Confidence in memory and accuracy have a unique relationship that differs across people, and contexts. Kelley (2003) conducted a study measuring confidence and accuracy using deceptive items with older adults and younger adults. Older adults showed less effective monitoring and higher levels of overconfidence than younger adults. DeSoto (2015) later showed confidence differs between item type, as in the type of words being used. Deceptive lures showed especially strong levels of overconfidence and lower accuracy. Rhodes and Tauber (2011) found that delays improve monitoring, except in the case of deceptive items. The proposed study seeks to further examine how retention interval affects confidence and accuracy using deceptive vs. control items in a cued recall task. Participants will study word pairs consisting of deceptive and control items for the cued recall task and will then rate their confidence after either a 5 or 30 minute interval. It is hypothesized that longer interval times will reduce accuracy, increase false recall with lures, and diminish the confidence accuracy relationship. This study seeks to expand on the current research surrounding monitoring, accuracy, and retention intervals to contribute to fields such as education and law.