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Suchow, Jordan W.; Fougnie, Daryl; Alvarez, George A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
Confidence in our memories is influenced by many factors, including beliefs about the perceptibility or memorability of certain kinds of objects and events, as well as knowledge about our skill sets, habits, and experiences. Notoriously, our knowledge and beliefs about memory can lead us astray, causing us to be overly confident in eyewitness…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Metacognition, Visual Perception, Cues