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Seli, Paul; Carriere, Jonathan S. A.; Thomson, David R.; Cheyne, James Allan; Martens, Kaylena A. Ehgoetz; Smilek, Daniel – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
In the present work, we investigate the hypothesis that failures of task-related executive control that occur during episodes of mind wandering are associated with an increase in extraneous movements (fidgeting). In 2 studies, we assessed mind wandering using thought probes while participants performed the metronome response task (MRT), which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Executive Function, Attention Control, Undergraduate Students
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Metcalfe, 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
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Koriat, Asher – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2008
In answering general-information questions, a within-person confidence-accuracy (C-A) correlation is typically observed, suggesting that people can monitor the correctness of their knowledge. However, because the correct answer is generally the consensual answer--the one endorsed by most participants--confidence judgment may actually monitor the…
Descriptors: Cues, Experimental Psychology, Responses, Correlation