The effect of identical word pairs on people's metamemory judgments: What are the contributions of processing fluency and beliefs about memory?

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 781-799

  Mueller, Michael L ^a   Dunlosky, John ^a   Tauber, Sarah K ^b  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beliefs; Judgments of learning; Metamemory; Processing fluency

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY; METACOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MEMORY; METACOGNITION; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84958780477     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2015.1058404     Document Type: Article

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