采用结构知识归因的方法,以学习判断和项目优先选择作为元认知监测和控制的指标,考察重量对元认知监控的影响是否是无意识的。被试学习粘贴在不同重量纸盒上的词对,进行学习判断(实验1)或项目选择(实验2),并报告其判断或选择的依据。结果:(1)重量影响学习判断和项目优先选择,相对于轻纸盒,被试给予重纸盒上的词对更高的JOL并优先选择重纸盒上的词对进行学习;(2)重量对学习判断的影响只发生在判断依据为猜测的情况下,重量对项目优先选择的影响只发生在判断依据为猜测和直觉的情况下。上述结果支持了元认知的具身性,并提示重量对元认知监控的影响可能是无意识的。
Previous evidence has shown that perceptual cues, such as weight, can affect metacognitive monitoring and control, providing evidence for the embodied nature of metacognition. Moreover, some researchers believe that the influence of perceptual information on metacognition is automatic and unconscious. However, there is no direct evidence to support this hypothesis. According to Reder's view, metacognitive monitoring and control can occur without conscious awareness. For example, if people are unaware of what makes them select one strategy rather than another, the strategy selection will be an unconscious metacognitive control. Therefore, it is critical to reveal people's basis of the metacognitive monitoring and control by establishing whether the influence of weight on metacognition is unconscious. For this purpose, we adopted the method of structural knowledge attribution. This method requires participants to report the basis of their judgment or decision in each trial, using one of a set of fixed options: guess, intuition, memory, and rules. "Guess" indicated that the judgment or decision was based on nothing at all; "intuition" indicated that the judgment or decision was based on a hunch or feeling that could not be articulated; "memory" indicated that the judgment or decision was based on a recollection; "rules" indicated that the judgment or decision was based on a rule (or a belief, or a theory) that could be stated if asked. The "guess" and "intuition" responses were taken to indicate that the basis of the judgments or decisions were unconscious because people had no idea why they made such a judgment or decision. The "memory" and "rules" responses were taken to indicate that the basis of the judgments or decisions were conscious because people know why they made such a judgment or decision. Therefore, the metacognitive process is unconscious when monitoring or control was based on guessing or intuition. And conversely, the metacognitive process is conscious when