Impression formation of tests: retrospective judgments of performance are higher when easier questions come first.

Four experiments are reported on the importance of retrospective judgments of performance (postdictions) on tests. Participants answered general knowledge questions and estimated how many questions they answered correctly. They gave higher postdictions when easy questions preceded difficult question...

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Publicado en:Memory & Cognition Vol. 42; no. 8; pp. 1325 - 1333
Autores principales: Jackson, Abigail, Greene, Robert
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Nov2014
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        Analysis of variance
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