Metacognition: Decision making processes in self-monitoring and self-regulation

The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 356-379

  Koriat, Asher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Feeling of knowing judgments; Judgment and decision making; Judgments of learning; Metacognition; Metacognitive monitoring; Metacognitive regulation; Remembering; Retrospective confidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 85065589844     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118468333.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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