Naslov
The Role of Explicit Awareness of the Existence of Logical Rules in Category Learning and Metacognitive Monitoring

Autori
Žauhar, Valnea ; Bajšanski, Igor ; Domijan, Dražen

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Proceedings of the Trieste Symposium on Perception and Cognition / Bernardis, P. ; Fantoni, C. ; Gerbino, W. - Trst : Trieste: EUT, 2015, 92-92

ISBN
978-88-8303-721-4

Skup
Trieste Symposium on Perception and Cognition

Mjesto i datum
Trst, Italija, 13.11.2015

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
category learning ; rule-based tasks ; metacognitive monitoring ; feeling-of-warmth judgments ; awareness of rules

Sažetak
The aim of the study was to examine whether the complexity of logical rules that define category membership affects category learning and its metacognitive monitoring. We employed different arrangements of three drawings as stimuli. Also, we manipulated explicit awareness of the existence of logical rules. Two experiments were performed. In the first experiment participants were explicitly told to discover and learn the rule underlying category structures, while in the second experiment participants were just told to learn category structures. Category structures used in the experiments were defined by logical rules of different levels of complexity: conjunctive, conjunctive-disjunctive or complex rule. In order to examine metacognitive monitoring, we asked participants to give feeling-of-warmth judgments repeatedly during learning to assess their subjective feelings about how close they are to the acquisition of the appropriate rule. As expected, the results showed that feeling-of-warmth judgments generally follow classification accuracy through the course of learning. Contrary to expectations, there were no differences between different levels of complexity of category structure on any of the tested measures. This is true regardless of whether the participants were explicitly informed that they should learn the underlying logical rule. The results suggest that when complex pictorial stimuli are used category learning is of similar difficulty for category structures defined by different logical rules.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Psihologija, Kognitivna znanost (prirodne, tehničke, biomedicina i zdravstvo, društvene i humanističke znanosti)

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