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MENTAL MODEL · M9783

Feeling of Knowing, FOK

Feeling of Knowing, FOK
Learn & MetacognitionmediumMemory Psychology
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Updated 2026-08-13

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INTRODUCTION

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CORE DEFINITION

A feeling of knowing is the premonition that you possess an answer you cannot currently retrieve, accompanied by an awareness of your own memory state that turns out to have some predictive validity. The core proposition is that this signal can be trusted as information about the memory rather than dismissed, so it can guide study strategy and cue retrieval, as in the tip-of-the-tongue state where the item exists but the path to it is blocked. The key qualification is that the feeling is a probability, not a guarantee.

SCAFFOLDING EFFECT

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- Trust The Signal: treat the felt sense as real evidence about the memory. - Change The Angle: use cues or fresh context to unblock the retrieval. - Stay With The Feeling: let the vague feeling form fully before naming it.

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Retrieval and the monitoring of retrieval are partly separate, so the system can register that a trace exists without being able to activate it. Cues that overlap the original encoding reopen the path, and in Gendlin's focusing the body holds a felt sense that carries meaning beyond what words have reached yet.

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