Does retrieval fluency contribute to the underconfidence-with-practice effect?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1258-1266

  Serra, Michael J ^a   Dunlosky, John ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Judgment bias; Judgments of learning; Metacognition; Retrieval fluency; Underconfidence with practice

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LEARNING; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 30544444180     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.31.6.1258     Document Type: Article

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