Do People Order Cues by Retrieval Fluency when Making Probabilistic Inferences?

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 843-854 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cvetomir M. Dimov ◽  
Daniela Link
Keyword(s):  
Retrieval Fluency

Disfluent, But Fast

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (5) ◽  
pp. 346-354
Author(s):  
Štěpán Bahník
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Response Times ◽  
Processing Fluency ◽  
Retrieval Fluency ◽  
Decision Times

Abstract. Processing fluency, a metacognitive feeling of ease of cognitive processing, serves as a cue in various types of judgments. Processing fluency is sometimes evaluated by response times, with shorter response times indicating higher fluency. The present study examined existence of the opposite association; that is, it tested whether disfluency may lead to faster decision times when it serves as a strong cue in judgment. Retrieval fluency was manipulated in an experiment using previous presentation and phonological fluency by varying pronounceability of pseudowords. Participants liked easy-to-pronounce and previously presented words more. Importantly, their decisions were faster for hard-to-pronounce and easy-to-pronounce pseudowords than for pseudowords moderate in pronounceability. The results thus showed an inverted-U shaped relationship between fluency and decision times. The findings suggest that disfluency can lead to faster decision times and thus demonstrate the importance of separating different processes comprising judgment when response times are used as a measure of processing fluency.

Long Retention Intervals Impair the Confidence-Accuracy Relationship for Eyewitness Recall

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Rebecca Spearing ◽  
Kimberley A. Wade
Keyword(s):  
Retention Interval ◽  
Cued Recall ◽  
Eyewitness Confidence ◽  
Eyewitness Accuracy ◽  
Memory Accuracy ◽  
Retrieval Fluency ◽  
Retention Intervals ◽  
Mock Crime ◽  
Very High ◽  
Accuracy Relationship

A growing body of research suggests that confidence judgements can provide a useful indicator of memory accuracy under some conditions. One factor known to affect eyewitness accuracy, yet rarely examined in the confidence-accuracy literature, is retention interval. Using calibration analyses, we investigated how retention interval affects the confidence-accuracy relationship for eyewitness recall. In total, 611 adults watched a mock crime video and completed a cued-recall test either immediately, after 1 week, or after 1 month. Long (1 month) delays led to lower memory accuracy, lower confidence judgements, and impaired the confidence-accuracy relationship compared to shorter (immediate and 1 week) delays. Long-delay participants who reported very high levels of confidence tended to be over-confident in the accuracy of their memories compared to other participants. Self-rated memory ability, however, did not predict eyewitness confidence or the confidence-accuracy relationship. We discuss the findings in relation to cue-utilization theory and a retrieval-fluency account.

The effects of encoding fluency and retrieval fluency on judgments of learning

2005 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 478-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asher Koriat ◽  
Hilit Ma’ayan
Keyword(s):  
Judgments Of Learning ◽  
Retrieval Fluency

Cognitive Correlates of the Covariance in Reading and Arithmetic Fluency: Importance of Serial Retrieval Fluency

2019 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 1063-1080 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuire Koponen ◽  
Kenneth Eklund ◽  
Riikka Heikkilä ◽  
Jonna Salminen ◽  
Lynn Fuchs ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Correlates ◽  
Retrieval Fluency

Noun phrase complexity versus word retrieval fluency in sentence production

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randi C. Martin ◽  
Chin-lung Yang
Keyword(s):  
Noun Phrase ◽  
Sentence Production ◽  
Word Retrieval ◽  
Retrieval Fluency

scholarly journals Disfluent, but fast

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Štěpán Bahník
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Cognitive Process ◽  
Response Times ◽  
Processing Fluency ◽  
Retrieval Fluency ◽  
Decision Times

Processing fluency, a metacognitive feeling of ease of cognitive processing, serves as a cue in various types of judgments. Response times are sometimes used for evaluation of fluency of a cognitive process; that is, shorter response times are said to indicate fluency. The present study tested whether disfluency may lead to faster decision times when it serves as a strong cue in judgment. Retrieval fluency was manipulated using previous presentation and phonological fluency by varying pronounceability of pseudowords. Both retrieval and phonological fluency increased liking of pseudowords. Furthermore, the results showed the predicted inverted-U shaped relationship between pronounceability and decision times. Decisions were faster for disfluent and fluent pseudowords than for moderately fluent pseudowords. The present study thus demonstrates the importance of separating different processes comprising judgment when response times are used as a proxy for processing fluency.

The mismeasure of memory: When retrieval fluency is misleading as a metamnemonic index.

1998 ◽  
Vol 127 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron S. Benjamin ◽  
Robert A. Bjork ◽  
Bennett L. Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Retrieval Fluency
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