Concept information
Preferred term
hypercorrection effect
Definition
- A metamemory phenomenon observed when errors made with higher confidence are more likely to be corrected with feedback on a final test than are errors made with lower confidence.
Broader concept
Synonym(s)
- hypercorrection phenomenon
Belongs to group
Bibliographic citation(s)
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• Butterfield, B., & Metcalfe, J. (2001). Errors committed with high confidence are hypercorrected. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 27(6), 1491–1494. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.27.6.1491
• Document type: empirical study
• Access: closed
Creator
- Frank Arnould
In other languages
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French
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phénomène d'hypercorrection
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-JBPRW023-4
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