Memory and Learning: recent research
In psychology, the term metacognition experts use to talk about how people think about their own cognitive processes – in essence, thinking about thinking.Current research Nate Kornell, assistant professor of psychology at Williams College, and Robert A. Bjork of the University of California at Los Angeles to answer this question and was recently published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology.
Their findings have led researchers to the proposal that people are confident in their ability to learn and too confident in their memories. That said, people do not expect that would be able to remember more words, after studying more – even if in fact, have learned a lot more – instead base their forecasts on the current memory. Kornell Bjork and call it a “stability bias” in the memory.
In their paper entitled Bias Stability in human memory: memory and learning and to overestimate underestimate the Kornell Bjork wrote: “To manage their own learning situation requires an understanding of the activities and processes that do and do not support learning.”
To explore how people think about their ability to remember, and Kornell Bjork has asked people to look at a list of words and predict how they would be able to remember the words after successive periods of study and testing.
Kornell work was also published in Scientific American, Psychological Science, Current Directions in Psychological Sciences and Applied Cognitive Psychology, among other magazines.
