The postdiction superiority effect in metacomprehension of text. Academic Article

abstract

• Metacomprehension accuracy for texts was greater after, rather than before, answering test questions about the texts-a postdiction superiority effect. Although postdiction superiority was found across successive sets of test questions and across successive texts, there was no improvement in metacomprehension accuracy after participants had taken more tests. Neither prediction nor postdiction gamma correlations with test performance improved with successive tests. Although the results are consistent with retrieval hypotheses, they contradict predictions made by test knowledge hypotheses, which state that increasing knowledge of the nature of the tests should increase metacomprehension accuracy.

authors

• Smith, Steven

published proceedings

• Mem Cognit

author list (cited authors)

• Pierce, B. H., & Smith, S. M.

citation count

• 33

complete list of authors

• Pierce, BH||Smith, SM

publication date

• January 2001

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

published in

• Memory and Cognition  Journal

keywords

• Adult
• Analysis Of Variance
• Female
• Humans
• Knowledge Of Results, Psychological
• Learning
• Male
• Memory
• Reading
• Recognition, Psychology

PubMed Central ID

• 11277465

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.3758/bf03195741

start page

• 62

end page

• 67

volume

• 29

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/bf03195741