Psychological Science ›› 2013, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (3): 663-668.

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Effects of Spaced Learning and Testing on Judgment of Learning

Zhen-Xing ZHANG   

  • Received:2012-11-08 Revised:2013-03-27 Online:2013-05-20 Published:2013-05-24
  • Contact: Zhen-Xing ZHANG

间隔学习与测试效应对学习判断的影响

张振新   

  1. 浙江师范大学
  • 通讯作者: 张振新

Abstract: Judgment of learning is an important form of metamemory monitoring judgment, which is a predictability judgment of the recollect in the later recall test done by the individuals after learning. As for JOL, how to improve the accuracy of JOL makes one of the core contents of the JOL study. There are many factors which effect JOL and the accuracy of JOL, including the intrinsic clues, the extrinsic clues, the mnemonics clues. Among these, certain learning conditions, such as spaced learning and test, are extrinsic factors which can be manipulated easily. They can make a critical impact on the memory and metamemory. The study included two experiment designs in order to improve memory effect and metamemory monitoring accuracy. Experiment 1 took the form of two-factor mixed design; investigate the effect of spaced learning made on JOL and the accuracy of JOL, massed learning as a reference. Experiment 2 was a two-factor mixed design. Based on the spaced learning effect in experiment 1, experiment 2 pulled in test effect and explored how spaced learning with test impact the judge of learning and the accuracy of JOL. The results showed that, a) The spaced learning improved recall performance significantly, reduced the over confidence in immediate judgment of learning and improve the accuracy of JOL for hard items. b) Testing before repetitive learning could enhance memory traces and significantly improve the relative accuracy of JOL on the base of spaced learning. c) Different extrinsic clues should be distinguished; spaced learning and pre-test were different extrinsic clues.

Key words: Spaced Learning, Testing effect, Judgment of learning

摘要: 文章两个实验用于研究间隔学习和测试效应对即刻学习判断及其准确性的影响,结果表明:(1)间隔学习促进记忆保持力,降低即刻学习判断中对困难学习材料的高估并提高学习判断相对准确性。(2)重学前预测试具有增强记忆痕迹的功能,在间隔学习的基础上显著提高了学习判断相对准确性。(3)外部线索应当区分,间隔学习和预测试属于不同的外部线索。

关键词: 间隔学习, 测试, 学习判断