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Item Social contagion of memory and the role of relative judgments(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 2016) Hart, Katherine Morgan; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Michelle L. MeadeThe current experiments examined the role of spontaneous relative judgments of self and participant memory within the social contagion of memory paradigm (Roediger, Meade, & Bergman, 2001). Participants viewed household scenes in collaboration with a confederate who falsely recalled incorrect items as having occurred in the scenes. The perceived memory ability of the confederate was manipulated during a practice scene to imply poor, average, or superior memory. Participant self-memory was manipulated by varying presentation rate to create short (poor) relative to long (good) encoding conditions. Importantly, the participants were never explicitly informed by the experimenter about either their own memory ability or the memory ability of the confederate. Of interest was whether or not participants would evaluate both the state of their own memory and the state of the confederate memory in relation to one another when remembering suggested information. On subsequent recall and recognition tests, participants were more likely to incorporate confederate suggestions when their own memory was poor, and this was especially true when the confederate's memory was superior. Participants do make spontaneous, relative judgments of memory when working with others on a memory test.Item Contextual change effects in retrospective and prospective duration judgment paradigms using muscial pieces(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 2014) Smith, Breanne Kay; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Richard A. BlockThis study provides support for differences in prospective and retrospective duration judgment paradigms. These differences have been attributed to the amount of change in processing context. Therefore, the study also examined contextual changes in musical pieces. A 2 x 3 factorial design experiment measured differences in verbal duration estimates made for prospective and retrospective conditions. In these conditions there were three music stimulus pieces: a simple, a complex, and a mixed type. In the retrospective condition, mixed type duration estimates were significantly longer than in the prospective condition. Also in the retrospective condition, mixed type duration estimates were reported as significantly longer than both the simple and complex music types. These findings provide further support for differences in prospective and retrospective paradigms (Block, Hancock & Zakay, 2010; Block & Zakay, 1997) as well as the contextual-change hypothesis for retrospective duration judgment (Block & Reed, 1978).Item Reflective judgment and the adult learner's use of metacognitive learning strategies(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Education, Health & Human Development, 1993) Yabui, Alan EichiItem Beyond rational judgment : a test of the affect heuristic hypothesis(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 2002) Richmond, Aaron Sargent