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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Memory Research
  • Metacognition Studies

Background:

  • The enactment effect demonstrates that performing actions enhances memory recall compared to merely observing or hearing them.
  • Existing research on action memory is extensive, but studies on the interplay between action and metamemory (memory monitoring) are scarce and yield conflicting findings.
  • Metamemory research has largely overlooked the specific influence of performing actions on memory prediction accuracy.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how performing actions influences metamemory accuracy, specifically judgements of learning (JOLs) for action-based memories.
  • To compare the resolution of JOLs for subject-performed tasks (SPTs) versus experimenter-performed tasks (EPTs) and verbal tasks (VTs).
  • To examine whether theoretical accounts of the enactment effect align with observed metamemory performance for actions.

Main Methods:

  • Participants engaged in subject-performed tasks (SPTs), observed experimenter-performed tasks (EPTs), or listened to verbal tasks (VTs).
  • Before recall, participants made judgements of learning (JOLs) to predict their future memory performance for SPTs and EPTs (Experiments 1a, 1b) and SPTs and VTs (Experiment 3).
  • Memory resolution was calculated as the correlation between JOLs and subsequent recall accuracy.

Main Results:

  • Memory prediction resolution was significantly higher for EPTs than for SPTs, and for VTs compared to SPTs.
  • Resolution for SPTs was not significantly different from zero, indicating poor JOL accuracy for actions.
  • The presence of JOLs attenuated the enactment effect, suggesting a reactive influence of metacognitive judgments on action memory.

Conclusions:

  • The findings support nonstrategic encoding accounts of the enactment effect, suggesting actions may be encoded automatically, leading to less accurate metamemory predictions.
  • Metamemory for actions differs significantly from that of non-action conditions (EPTs, VTs), highlighting the need for further research in this area.
  • Metacognitive judgments (JOLs) can interact with and alter the magnitude of action-related memory benefits.