Metacognition Ch5 Discussion Questions

Discussion Questions 1 - In the scenario, subjects were presented with a category and words associated with that category. The study did not find substantial difference between JOL and delayed JOL. I speculate that the reason for this would be the familiarity the person had with the category allowed them to quickly assess their own memory. They already had a framework in which to store the words, and knew the relationship already. There may be ways to create some discrepancy between immediate and delayed JOL in this case, such as prompting the students with different information or asking them to remember via a ‘fill in the blank’ rather than a multiple choice. 2 - Monitoring learning seems to me to be a reflexive or near-reflexive activity; even if a person is not told to monitor their learning or does not have the habit of it, they should be able to at least make a JOL after a learning experience, and even then the JOL should be better than chance, because they can make a retrieval attempt at any time, whether they did much active monitoring during the learning experience or not.