On the difficulty of mending metacognitive illusions: A priori theories, fluency effects, and misattributions of the interleaving benefit

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 145, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 918-933

  Yan, Veronica X ^a   Bjork, Elizabeth Ligon ^a   Bjork, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Induction; Interleaving; Metacognition; Self regulated learning

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; ILLUSION; LEARNING; METACOGNITION; PAINTING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; TEACHING;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; JUDGMENT; LEARNING; METACOGNITION; PAINTINGS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); TEACHING;

EID: 84969931979     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/xge0000177     Document Type: Article

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