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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Confidence Judgments"”.
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An evaluation between confidence judgments and differences in monitoring ability
Metacognition is the awareness of a person's thinking and the ability to regulate that thinKing This study examines how confident a person is at monitoring progress during two cognitive tasks. The fast task was the feeling-of-knowing paradigm, when participants judge how accurately they can …
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Judgments of Learning and Retrospective Confidence Judgments: A Qualitative Exploration of Difference in Processes
<p>Many studies of metamemorial confidence have found differences in calibration and resolution between two similar confidence judgments – judgments of learning (JOLs) and retrospective confidence judgments (RCJs). These findings have led to competing theories of the processes involved in JOLs and …
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Remembering and knowing: exploring subjective report, familiarity, and confidence
… thesis examined how people make and understand judgments of subjective experience using the categories of Remember, Know, Familiar, and Guess (R, K, F, G), and represents the first attempt to use all four categories in a standard episodic recognition task. The key findings of this body of work …
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Can Metacognitive Monitoring Ability be Trained?
… dissertation tests two methods for reducing overconfidence (Experiment 1) and improving monitoring accuracy (Experiment 2) in high and low performers.</p> <p>Experiment 1 tested whether answering easy rather than hard questions prior to taking a medium-difficulty test reduced trial-by-trial …
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Assessing the Implicitness of Visual Statistical Learning at the Individual Level
… paradigm (RSVP), a cover task, and binary confidence judgments, to assess how aware participants were of the statistical structure. Although there was strong evidence of participants learning the statistical structure at the group level, there was little evidence suggesting participants …
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Does being unaware predict being unskilled? Analyzing the predictive ability of the Metacognition Awareness Inventory
… a) A global predictive judgment, b) item-by-item confidence judgments, and c) a global postdictive judgment. The exam results were compared to participants’ self-report on the MAI and participants’ judgements. It was hypothesized that participants with higher MAI scores would do consistently …
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Metacognitive calibration in introductory physics courses: Predictors and interventions
… characteristics of students whose metacognitive judgments do not align with their ability before the first exam in order to design appropriate interventions so that these students do not find themselves in a hole from which they cannot recover. Besides identifying students at risk of …