Cognitive Sciences, Logic & Philosophy of Science

A theory of nonassociative measurement structures is developed which produces a natural generalization of associative measurement (i.e., extensive structures), and represen- tation and uniqueness theorems are established for these generalized structures, and it is shown that in many cases these representations are ratio scales. The methods of proof strongly relate the structure of the automorphism group of the nonassociative structure

The feeding of knowing refers to predictions about subsequent memory performance on previously nonrecalled items. The most frequently investigated type of subsequent performance has been recognition. The present research explored predictive accuracy with two new feeling-of-knowing criterion tests (in addition to recognition): relearning and perceptual identification. In two experiments, people attempted to recall the answers to general-information questions such as, "What is the capital of Australia?", then made feeling-of-knowing predictions for all nonrecalled answers, and finally had a criterion test to assess the accuracy of the feeling-of-knowing predictions. Experiment 1 demonstrated that perceptual identification can be employed successfully as a criterion test for the feeling of knowing. This opens a new way for metamemory research via perception. Moreover, the feeling-of-knowing accuracy for predicting perceptual identification was not significantly correlated wit...