FranziskaSchäfer_02052023

Franziska Schäfer M.Sc.

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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Consultation hours by appointment by e-mail.

  • Metacognition and Metamemory
  • Learning and memory
  • Metacognition in applied contexts
Since 2022 Ph.D. student in Psychology, University of Mannheim and Technical University of Darmstadt
2022 to 2023 Graduate student, Center for Doctoral Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences, Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences, University of Mannheim
2020 to 2022 Master of Science Psychology (Focus: Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience), Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
2017 to 2020 Bachelor of Science Psychology, University of Mannheim
Since 09/2023 Research associate in the project “Metacognition in Human-AI Interaction” (funded by the Forum Interdisciplinary Research, Technical University of Darmstadt)
Since 04/2023 Doctoral researcher, Research Group Applied Cognitive Psychology, Technical University of Darmstadt
2021 Research intern, Chair for Cognition and Perception, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen
2018 to 2022 Student research assistant, Chair for Cognition and Individual Differences, University of Mannheim
2024 Doctoral scholarship awarded by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
2023 Research Award of the Department of Human Sciences
2023 Travel grant of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
2023 Graduate Conference Award of the Psychonomic Society
2022 1-year full scholarship for Doctoral studies at the Center for Doctoral Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences, Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences, University of Mannheim
2022 TeaP selected Poster Award (together with Prof. M. Undorf) of the section General Psychology of the German Psychological Society (DGPs)
2022 Travel grant for female students of the Equal Opportunities Office, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

2024

Schäfer, F., & Undorf, M. (2024). On the educational relevance of immediate judgment of learning reactivity: No effects of predicting one's memory for general knowledge facts. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 13(1), 113-123. https://doi.org/10.1037/mac0000113

Undorf, M., Schäfer, F., & Halamish, V. (2024). Making immediate judgments of learning either enhances or impairs memory: Evidence from 17 experiments with related and unrelated word pairs. Collabra: Psychology, 10(1), 117108. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.117108

2024

Schäfer, F., & Undorf, M. (2024, 17.-20.03.). The role of learning strategies in reactivity of judgments of learning. In F. Schäfer & S.Navarro-Báez (Chairs), Recent Insights on the Basis, Accuracy, and Impact of Metacognitive Judgments [Symposium]. 66th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), Regensburg Germany.

2023

Schäfer, F., & Undorf, M. (2023, 16.-19.11..). Making Judgments of Learning During Learning Does Not Affect Performance in Short-Answer and Multiple-Choice Tests [Poster presentation]. 65th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, San Francisco, USA.

Schäfer, F., & Undorf, M. (2023, 23.-26.03.). Assessing Metamemory Beliefs with Indirect Measures [Talk]. 65th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), Trier, Germany.

2022

Schäfer, F., & Undorf, M. (2022, 24.06.). Making JOLs during learning does not affect performance in short-answer and multiple-choice tests. In D. Bryce (Chair), The basis, impact, and development of monitoring judgments: New experimental approaches in metamemory [Symposium]. 10th SIG 16 International Biennial Conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI).

Schäfer, F., & Undorf, M. (2022, 20.-23.03.). Does Making Judgments of Learning Improve Performance for Educationally Relevant Material in Multiple-Choice and Short-Answer Tests? [Poster presentation]. 64th Conference of experimental psychologists (TeaP), Köln, Germany.

2021

Schäfer, F., & Undorf, M. (2021, 14.-17.03.2021). Positive and Negative Reactivity in Judgments of Learning: Shared or Distinct Mechanisms? [Poster presentation]. 63rd Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), Ulm, Germany.

Teaching

  • Experimental Psychology (BSc Psychology: 03-03-0001): Summer term 2023, Summer term 2024
  • Experimental Psychological Internship(BSc Psychology: 03-03-0007): Winter term 2023/2024

Supervised theses

Bachelor theses

  • Gruber, L. (01.03.2024). Der Einfluss der Abgabe von Judgments of Learning auf das Lernen von Gebäude-Höhe-Paaren: Eine Untersuchung anhand visueller und numerischer Informationen.
  • Rahnamaei, N. (19.02.2024). Reflektieren beim Lernen: Der Einfluss von Judgement of learning auf die Lernleistung mit bildungsrelevanten Materialien. Welche Relevanz haben Lernstrategien im Studium in diesem Zusammenhang?
  • Scherer, L. N. (19.02.2024). Reflektieren beim Lernen: Der Einfluss von Judgement of learning auf die Lernleistung mit bil-dungsrelevanten Materialien. Welche Relevanz hat „actively open minded thinking“ in diesem Zusammenhang?