Soliciting judgments of learning reactively enhances accessibility but undermines precision of continuous color memory
摘要
An emerging body of studies has observed that soliciting judgments of learning (JOLs) reactively changes recall or recognition of specific study items, a phenomenon known as the reactivity effect of JOLs on memory. The current studies explored whether soliciting JOLs reactively affects continuous color memory and whether it affects memory accessibility or memory precision (or a combination of both). Experiment 1 employed a classical continuous color memory task in which participants studied animal images in different colors and then reconstructed the colors on a continuous matching wheel, and found that making JOLs reactively enhanced accessibility but impaired precision of memory. Experiment 2 replicated these dissociated reactivity effects and further found that articulatory suppression successfully eliminated these effects, suggesting that making JOLs reactively alters color memory through prompting individuals to favor the verbal-labeling strategy for encoding and retrieving visual information. The findings support the strategy-change theory to account for the JOL reactivity effect.