The effects of domain knowledge on metacomprehension accuracy

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1001-1013

  Griffin, Thomas D ^a   Jee, Benjamin D ^a   Wiley, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BASEBALL; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPERIUM; KNOWLEDGE; KNOWLEDGE BASE; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL BIAS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

BASEBALL; COMPREHENSION; CULTURE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; READING;

EID: 70349731676     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.37.7.1001     Document Type: Article

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