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Metamemory for faces : self-other awareness of typicality and race effects

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Resumo:The Own-race bias (ORB) – the tendency to recognize own-race faces better than other-race faces – has been widely scrutinized and replicated across multiple studies. Recently, some have tried to link metamemory to the ORB, realizing that it also occurs when a person attempts to predict their future memory. Specifically, this thesis strives to further investigate how accurate a person is about their future recognition performance of own and other-race faces and whether typicality – a face being atypical or typical – affects the ORB and participants’ metamemorial predictions. In addition, we also tried to understand if people are aware of these effects when making predictions for others and themselves. Using a standard recognition paradigm and JOL’s (judgment of learning) to assess participants’ future recognition with Caucasian participants, our results replicated the ORB and an effect of typicality was found, exposing the fact that people tend to better discriminate atypical faces than typical ones, due to the salience of face features. No differences were found in relative metamnemonic accuracy, nevertheless, people predicted their future memory performance above chance level. Importantly, we found that people are aware of these effects and, this awareness is grounded in a well-adjusted naïve theory about the functioning of memory. This awareness was established not only for themselves but for others. Limitations and proposals for future studies are discussed.
Autores principais:Vieira, Alexandre Emanuel Reis Gonçalves
Assunto:Metamemória Tipicidade Raça Teses de mestrado - 2020
Ano:2020
País:Portugal
Tipo de documento:dissertação de mestrado
Tipo de acesso:acesso aberto
Instituição associada:Universidade de Lisboa
Idioma:inglês
Origem:Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa

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