Processing strategies and the generation effect: Implications for making a better reader
Abstract
When presented with items that must be generated versus read at encoding, individuals typically remember better those items that they generated versus those that they only read. We examined whether— given the opportunity to experience such differential memorial consequences of generating versus reading—participants might change how they processed future to-be-read information. In a first set of two experiments, participants were able to profit from such an experience to the extent that a generation advantage was eliminated on subsequent memory tests of generated and read items. Two additional experiments demonstrated the critical nature of this experience in leading to improved processing of future to-be-read information and elimination of a generation advantage. We believe that these results relate to the characterization of the learner emerging from recent metacognitive research and have possible implications for how learners might be induced to process information more effectively.
Repository Citation
DeWinstanley, Patricia Ann, and Elizabeth Ligon Bjork. 2004. "Processing strategies and the generation effect: Implications for making a better reader." Memory & Cognition 32(6): 945-955.
Publisher
Springer Verlag
Publication Date
9-1-2004
Publication Title
Memory & Cognition
Department
Psychology
Document Type
Article
DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.3758/BF03196872
Language
English
Format
text
