Metacognition D&M Ch 4 Concept Review

1 - FOK judgments are collected by scientists by giving someone a cue, asking them to recall the answer, and then, if they cannot recall it, asking for their estimate of the likelihood that they would recognize the answer if they saw it. Relative FOK accuracy is a measure comparing your FOK to your performance -- high relative accuracy means you were consistent in judging yourself, low relative accuracy means you were perhaps not that tuned in to how strong or weak your FOK really was.

2a - Evidence that FOK comes from cue familiarity:
The notion here is that perhaps you know something about the topic already. This has been studied by manipulating familiar and unfamiliar pairs, to see if you recognize it. Domain knowledge is hard to study so the overall data is weaker.

2b - Evidence that FOK also comes from target accessibility:
The notion here is that you're pulling up some kind of partial memory -- an image, a first initial. This has been studied by asking people to remember what else they might know about something they are TOT about. Providing a partial memory cue seems to increase recall, and people seem to recall these partial pieces.

3 - Brain areas for FOK -- same as memory?
Frontal lobe seems responsible for FOK, but memory is in the temporal lobe. Work as a team.

4 - What is a TOT and how does it arise? What are strategies to eliminate it?
A TOT state is one in which you feel that you know a particular piece of information but can't quite recall it. It might be eliminated by giving yourself more time to remember something, or by walking through the alphabet, or by thinking about all the other information you might know about the subject to see if you can strengthen your own cue.

5 - Describe the functions of FOKs
FOKs are useful in strategy selection for memory retrieval.