Although judgments of learning are accurate at discriminating difficult and easy items, it is also the case that:

a. people’s judgments of learning are not influenced by the font size of text.
b. people’s judgments of learning underestimate the effect of learning over multiple trials.
c. people’s judgments of learning are not correlated with any control decisions.
d. people’s judgments of learning overestimate the influence of forgetting.


Ans: b

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