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Competence and confidence: Self-assessment of accuracy on cognitive tasks

Posted on:2007-12-03Degree:Ph.DType:Dissertation
University:Capella UniversityCandidate:Winterholler, Seth FFull Text:PDF
GTID:1444390005962482Subject:Psychology
Abstract/Summary:
This dissertation is a cognitive study that examines student's self-assessed accuracy on difficult and easy questions and correlates the data to the proportion of correct answers. It supports that individuals, while generally overconfident in their judgment of accuracy on questions, become more overconfident in their judgments as the questions become more difficult.
Keywords/Search Tags:Accuracy, Cognitive, Questions
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