Judgments of learning impair rule-based discovery.
Eliciting judgments of learning (JOLs) from participants has been shown to enhance memory recall on paired-associates tasks in some contexts, a reactivity effect. However, little is known about the effect of JOLs on forms of learning where the task requires generalizing beyond the training set, such...
| Published in: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 54; no. 1; pp. 45 - 59 |
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Springer Nature
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