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Mitchum, Ainsley L.; Kelley, Colleen M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
Two experiments tested whether differences in problem-solving strategies influence the ability of people to monitor their problem-solving effectiveness as measured by confidence judgments. On multiple choice problems, people tend to use either a constructive matching strategy, whereby they attempt to solve a problem before looking at the response…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Cues, Confidence Testing, Strategic Planning