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phenomenon > metamemory phenomenon > hypercorrection effect

Preferred term

hypercorrection effect  

Definition

  • Errors made with higher confidence are more likely to be corrected with feedback on a final test than are errors made with lower confidence.

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Synonym(s)

  • hypercorrection phenomenon

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • 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

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

Dataset citation(s)

  • • itzman, D., Rhodes, M., Hausman, H., & Scheibe, D. A. (2021, April 6). Hypercorrection & Episodic Memory. doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/YBJU3

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-JBPRW023-4

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