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Direct linkMetcalfe, Janet; Finn, Bridgid – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
This study investigated the "knew it all along" explanation of the hypercorrection effect. The hypercorrection effect refers to the finding that when people are given corrective feedback, errors that are committed with high confidence are easier to correct than low-confidence errors. Experiment 1 showed that people were more likely to…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Testing, Multiple Choice Tests, Error Correction
