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."
Ans: a
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