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HOW METACOGNITIVE ERRORS CONTRIBUTE TO DIFFICULTY REMEMBERING PROPER NAMES
Metacognitive Errors Contribution to Difficulty Recalling Proper Names
This article discusses the challenges of learning and remembering proper names, which have been well-documented in previous research. However, the metacognitive basis of proper name learning has yet to be extensively studied. Metacognition involves self-reflection about cognition and includes monitoring and control processes. Monitoring can inform self-regulation of learning, such as the decision to stop looking because the information is known and understood.
Metacognition is commonly assessed via judgments of learning (JOLs), in which participants predict how likely they are to remember a piece of information. Theories that attempt to explain the difficulty of learning proper names emphasize the accessibility (activation) of proper name information compared with other information. For example, the interaction and activation competitive network (IAC) posits that proper names are difficult to retrieve because they are unique to each individual.
In contrast, other information (e.g., occupations) is more likely to be shared across individuals. Proper name information is more difficult to retrieve because retrieval relies on a few person identity nodes (PINs), whereas common noun information benefits from several PINs. Node structure theory (NST) accounts for the difficulty in learning proper names, word retrieval errors, and age-related differences in memory for names.
Common nouns (semantic information) and proper nouns are presumed to be stored as separate lexical nodes. This division is maintained even if a name and occupation are homonyms and have identical phonology. The IAC and the NST models propose that semantic information is more easily activated than proper name information because semantic information has supplementary links to other related information.
EXPERIMENT 1
The study aimed to investigate the Bakerbaker paradox, which refers to the difficulty of remembering proper names compared to occupations. Participants were asked to study faces paired with surnames and occupations that are also surnames (Bakerbaker items) and make judgments of learning (JOLs) about their likelihood of recalling the associated noun. The study found a significant interaction between item type (surname vs. occupation) and measure (JOL vs. recall), indicating that calibration differed for surnames and professions. Participants needed to be more accurate at predicting their memory for surnames than for occupations, but they had similar levels of actual recall performance for both item types.
EXPERIMENT 2
Experiment 2 was conducted to replicate the findings of Experiment 1, which showed that participants’ judgments of learning (JOLs) were insensitive to the type of item to be remembered, resulting in poor calibration for names compared with occupations. In contrast, memory could have been more sufficient for names than professions.
Experiment 2 was to improve memory performance by showing each face-noun pair twice during the study phase. The results showed that JOLs increased from Block 1 to Block 2 but did not differ for names compared with occupations. Consistent with Experiment 1, the recall was higher for occupations than for names, but the overall memory level was more elevated in Experiment 2 than in Experiment 1.
EXPERIMENT 3
Experiment 3 investigated whether participants can become aware of the difficulty of learning names and if they can adjust their memory predictions based on prior experience. The study involved 40 participants who were given two sets of study-test trials, one after the other, each with novel materials at each study opportunity, to learn from prior experience.
Results indicated that participants could learn from their experience of Time 1 and adjust memory predictions accordingly to reflect differences in recall between names and occupations, leading to better-calibrated JOLs for both names and occupations at Time 2.
However, this improvement in JOL calibration did not lead to an improvement in memory performance. The study suggested that a lack of awareness of the difficulty of name learning has little or no bearing on memory performance.
EXPERIMENT 4
In Experiment 4, participants were allowed to self-pace their study of face noun pairs and tested on two sets of pairs. The aim was to determine if participants learned from prior experiences that names are harder to remember than occupations and thus allocate more study time to names compared with occupations at Time 2.
The study found that participants assigned significantly more time for names than occupations at Time 2, indicating that with prior experience, they sought to give more study time to names than occupations. This change in study time allocation may improve participants’ recall of names. Experiment 4 yielded results similar to Experiment 3.
DISCUSSION
The study explored metacognitive awareness in name learning and the relationship between memory performance and memory predictions for names versus occupations. Four experiments were conducted, and the results showed that although names were recalled less frequently than occupations, memory predictions did not differ between the two categories. Experiment 3 demonstrated that metacognitive judgments for names improved after a study-test opportunity. Experiment 4 showed that participants who were unaware of the difficulty of learning names compared with occupations allocated the same amount of study time to both types of nouns. However, with experience, participants improved calibration and gave more study time to names than occupations, resulting in better memory performance for names.
The findings are consistent with previous metacognitive research showing disparities between memory performance and metamemory awareness. The cue-utilization framework provided one potential explanation for such differences. According to this approach, memory predictions are inferential and can be based on three types of information: intrinsic, extrinsic, or mnemonic cues. Mnemonic cues are generally influenced by practice or experience and can modify existing personal theories of metacognition. To the degree that they are responsive to the diagnostic signals supplied during the trial, participants will provide memory predictions that match memory performance.
The study found proper names are more difficult to learn and recall than common nouns. However, theories of proper name learning do not make specific provisions for metacognitive deficits in proper name learning. The study’s results, particularly in Experiment 4, indicate that improvements in calibration influence choices made during the research and thus influence memory for names. Such data suggest that theories of proper name learning should posit some role in monitoring and controlling processes.
The study has practical implications as older adults frequently experience more difficulty learning proper names than young adults. Future research should focus on metacognitive training as a potential tool to improve proper name learning, particularly for older adults. At the same time, older adults frequently cite memory for proper names as one of their most dominant concerns.
In conclusion, the study demonstrated that participants’ memory predictions were insensitive to the difficulty of learning proper names, and improvements in calibration influence choices made during research and thus influence memory for names. The findings are consistent with prior metacognitive research demonstrating discrepancies between memory performance and metamemory awareness. The study’s results suggest that theories of proper name learning should posit some role in monitoring and control processes, and metacognitive training could be a potential tool to improve proper name learning, particularly for older adults.
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