The role of interest in memory for trivia questions: An investigation with a large-scale database.
The role of interest in memory for trivia questions: An investigation with a large-scale database.
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DOI：
10.1037/mot0000087
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发表时间：
2018-09
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Murayama K
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作者：
Fastrich GM;Kerr T;Castel AD;Murayama K
先前的研究已经确立了兴趣对于记忆表现的重要性。激发实验兴趣的一种方法是使用琐事问题。然而，之前的研究仅使用了有限数量的琐事问题，并且这些问题在不同研究之间存在很大差异，因此很难确保研究结果的可比性和普遍性。大多数这些研究也没有区分对琐事问题本身的兴趣和对相应答案的兴趣。为了解决这些问题，本研究建立了一个大样本（N = 1498）244个琐事问题的规范数据库，并研究了回答前兴趣（即对问题的兴趣）和回答后兴趣（即对答案的兴趣）与学习绩效的关系。向参与者提出一些琐事问题，要求他们提供对答案的最佳猜测，评估他们对猜测的信心，并表明他们有兴趣了解真实答案。在给出答案后，参与者表达了他们对答案后的兴趣。一周后，参与者接受了有关问题的记忆测试。多级结构方程模型表明，答案前兴趣和记忆之间的正相关关系完全由答案后兴趣（即对问题答案的兴趣）调节。信心对记忆力有直接影响和中介影响（相对于兴趣）。这些结果对兴趣如何促进学习提供了更细致的分析。
The importance of interest for memory performance has been established in previous studies. One way to induce interest in experiments is to use trivia questions. However, previous studies have used only a limited number of trivia questions and these questions differ substantially across studies, making it difficult to ensure the comparability and generalizability of the findings. Most of these studies also have not differentiated between interest in the trivia question itself and interest in the corresponding answer. To address these issues, the current study established a normative database for 244 trivia questions with a large sample (N = 1498) and examined how pre-answer interest (i.e., interest in the question) and post-answer interest (i.e., interest in the answer) relate to learning performance. Participants were presented with trivia questions, asked to provide their best guess for the answer, rated their confidence in the guess, and indicated their interest in learning the true answer. Following the presentation of the answer, participants indicated their post-answer interest. One week later, participants were given a memory test on the questions. A multilevel structural equation model revealed that the positive relationship between pre-answer interest and memory was fully mediated by post-answer interest (i.e., interest in the questions’ answer). Confidence had both a direct and a mediated effect (over interest) on memory. These results provide a more fine-grained analysis of how interest can fuel learning.