The effect of learning strategies on offloading decisions in response recall.
The decision-making processes involved in relying on an external source (cognitive offloading) for memory retrieval tasks have been discussed in numerous publications. The nature of original learning strategies could be an important contributing factor to the decision to offload but is unexamined. I...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 54; no. 1; pp. 273 - 294 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=191289405&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 191289405 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 0090502X MEG jtl: Memory & Cognition issn: 0090502X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jan2026 vid: 54 iid: 1 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 191289405 10.3758/s13421-025-01750-9 ppf: 273 ppct: 21 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.4MB tig: atl: The effect of learning strategies on offloading decisions in response recall. aug: au: Donet, Jenna R. Marshall, Philip H. Serra, Michael J. affil: https://ror.org/0405mnx93 Department of Psychological Sciences, Texas Tech University, 2700 18Th St, 79410, Lubbock, TX, USA https://ror.org/033ztpr93 Department of Medical Education, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, USA su: Texas Executive function Decision making Problem solving Learning Memory Analysis of variance Cognition Scale analysis (Psychology) Pearson correlation (Statistics) Statistical power analysis T-test (Statistics) Data analysis Cognitive processing speed Descriptive statistics Chi-squared test Word processing Statistics Learning strategies Comparative studies Confidence intervals Data analysis software Time sug: subj: Executive function Decision making Problem solving Learning Memory Analysis of variance Cognition Texas Scale analysis (Psychology) Pearson correlation (Statistics) Statistical power analysis T-test (Statistics) Data analysis Cognitive processing speed Descriptive statistics Chi-squared test Word processing Statistics Learning strategies Comparative studies Confidence intervals Data analysis software Time keyword: Offloading Paired-associates Psychology and Cognitive Sciences Psychology Offloading Paired-associates Psychology and Cognitive Sciences Psychology ab: The decision-making processes involved in relying on an external source (cognitive offloading) for memory retrieval tasks have been discussed in numerous publications. The nature of original learning strategies could be an important contributing factor to the decision to offload but is unexamined. In this study we used a paired-associate learning task to investigate the influences of mnemonic (associative) and rote learning strategies on the likelihood of opting out, either by offloading or omitting a response. Further, we investigated the ways that certain outcome variables (specifically, the number of opt-out responses and amount of time spent studying) may in fact influence the relationship between learning strategy and decisions to persist in effortful search. We also investigated the degree to which any effects of learning strategy are specific to either offloading or omission decisions. Overall, we found a mnemonic learning effect of decreased frequency of general opt-out decisions relative to the rote group. Further, we found that mnemonic learning led to longer internal search times prior to opt-out responses, suggesting additional, intentional search processes such as trying to retrieve the original mnemonic, to help recover the response word. A partial mediation of the learning strategy effect on omission latency by performance factors suggested the learning strategy effect affects omission latency independently. Finally, relative to the rote learning strategy, the mnemonic strategy led to fewer instances of offloading, and longer decision latencies for omission responses. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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