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Lauren A. Mason; Abigail Miller; Gregory Hughes; Holly A. Taylor – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2025
False alarming, or detecting an error when there is not one, is a pervasive problem across numerous industries. The present study investigated the role of elaboration, or additional information about non-error differences in complex visual displays, for mitigating false error responding. In Experiment 1, learners studied errors and non-error…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Error Patterns, Evaluation Methods, Visual Aids
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Starns, Jeffrey J.; Ma, Qiuli – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
The two-high-threshold (2HT) model of recognition memory assumes that people make memory errors because they fail to retrieve information from memory and make a guess, whereas the continuous unequal-variance (UV) model and the low-threshold (LT) model assume that people make memory errors because they retrieve misleading information from memory.…
Descriptors: Guessing (Tests), Recognition (Psychology), Memory, Tests
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Laski, Elida V.; Schiffman, Joanna; Vasilyeva, Marina; Ermakova, Anna – AERA Open, 2016
This study investigated income group differences in kindergartners' and first graders' (N = 161) arithmetic by examining the link between accuracy and strategy use on simple and complex addition problems. Low-income children were substantially less accurate than high-income children, in terms of both percentage of correctly solved problems and the…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Grade 1, Arithmetic, Accuracy