Which of the Following Students Provides the Best Summary of Why

question 6

Multiple Choice

Which of the following students provides the best summary of why a person's confidence is important to the topic of memory strategies and metacognition?

• A) Asli: "In general, people are overconfident that they will remember material accurately."
• B) Megan: "Ironically, people are overconfident about eyewitness testimony and underconfident about material they learn in an academic setting."
• C) George: "People are especially likely to be overconfident if they have studied material by using the self-reference technique."
• D) Xavier: "People are generally overconfident when they use memory strategies and underconfident when they use metacognition."

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Definitions:

Self-Contradiction

A statement or proposition that inherently contradicts itself, making it logically impossible.

Biconditional

A logical statement that is true if both its components are either true or false together.

Self-Contradiction

Self-contradiction is a logical inconsistency whereby a statement contradicts itself directly or indirectly, rendering it logically impossible.

Main Component

The primary or most important part of a system.