313 exam 4

"knowing about knowing"

Making a judgment about one’s level of knowledge on a given topic

"how good are you at..."

Actions or decisions that are based on one’s awareness of their own knowledge

"how long should i practice before entering a competition"

An explicit prediction about one’s own performance on a future test

How confident are you (0-100%) that you will remember this word?

Difference between one’s predicted performance and actual performance

Most common flaw in metacognitive awareness is

What makes people overconfident?

• fluency/ease of processing

• more information

• age

• harder material

Information that is easy to process (i.e., fluent) is assumed to be easier to remember

fluency error examples

• font size/style

• images/graphics

• lectures

• movies

Visual comparison of predicted performance with actual performance