In One Study,participants Were Asked to Recall a Previous Time

question 46

Multiple Choice

In one study,participants were asked to recall a previous time in their lives when they felt confident.These participants were subsequently more persuaded by a persuasive message arguing for a new campus policy than participants who were asked to recall a previous time during which they felt doubt.How might metacognition help to explain this finding?

• A) Participants asked to recall a confident memory engaged in less metacognition than those asked to recall feeling doubt.
• B) Participants asked to recall a confident memory engaged in more metacognition than those asked to recall feeling doubt.
• C) Participants asked to recall a confident memory continued to feel confident while reading about the new campus policy. They then inferred that they were confident that the new policy was a bad idea
• D) Participants asked to recall a confident memory continued to feel confident while reading about the new campus policy. They then inferred that they felt confident about the campus policy.

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