Chapter 6 discusses the accuracy of people's metamemory for pairs of words on an item-by-item basis. This research suggests that

a. people are not very accurate in guessing which pairs of words they are likely to recall at a later time.
b. people clearly underestimate their ability to recall pairs of words at a later time.
c. people clearly overestimate their ability to recall pairs of words at a later time.
d. people have fairly accurate metamemory when the stimuli are pairs of words.


Ans: d

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