RUI: Ease of Processing and the Experiences of Remembering and Knowing

本研究将探索与记忆、问题回答和评价相关的主观体验的基础。这项研究是由一个模型指导的，在这个模型中，这种经历取决于对思想产生的容易程度的推断。一组实验将调查记忆的体验是否基于在回忆过程中想法出现的容易程度。在回忆过程中出现在脑海中的特定想法会被独立于实际被记住的事件而被操纵，从而产生记忆幻觉。其他实验将调查对世界知识问题答案的信心体验和对问题难度的评估是否基于答案出现在脑海中的容易程度。事先接触正确或错误的答案会使这些答案在回答问题时很容易出现在脑海中，从而产生知道和低估问题难度的错觉。这项研究将增加我们对各种领域中造成记忆和判断错误的因素的理解，包括教育、目击者证词和临床记忆障碍。

This research will explore the basis for the subjective experiences associated with memory, question answering, and evaluation. The research is guided by a model in which such experiences depend on an inference about the ease with which ideas come to mind. One set of experiments will investigate whether the experience of remembering is based on the ease with which ideas come to mind during recall attempts. The particular ideas that come to mind during recall will be manipulated independently of the actual to- be-remembered events, thereby creating memory illusions. Other experiments will investigate whether the experience of confidence in answers to world knowledge questions and the evaluation of the difficulty of questions is based on the ease with which answers come to mind. Prior exposure to the right or wrong answers will make those answers come to mind readily in response to the questions, thereby creating illusions of knowing and underestimations of question difficulty. The research will add to our understanding of the factors that create errors of memory and judgment in a variety of domains, including education, eyewitness testimony, and clinical memory disorders.