Document Type
Contribution to Book
Publication Date
1988
Abstract
The proposal that guides this research is that organizational structures of external memories, like those of internal memories, play an important role in monitoring knowledge. Previous evidence for such a relation was obtained in a laboratory experiment. Here, I report the results of a survey of faculty at Trinity University. They judged their confidence in knowledge related to their research and described their external memories (office files and bookshelves). The more confident among them had read and stored more information; they also maintained the more organized offices. In multiple-regression analyses, organization was the best predictor of confidence.
Editor
Michael M. Gruneberg, Peter E. Morris, & R. N. Sykes
Publisher
Wiley
City
London
ISBN
9780471912347
Repository Citation
Hertel, P. T. (1988). Monitoring external memory. In M. M. Gruneberg, P. E. Morris, & R. N. Sykes (Eds.), Practical aspects of memory: Current research and issues (pp. 221-226). Wiley.
Publication Information
Practical Aspects of Memory: Current Research and Issues