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Direct linkEliseev, Emmaline Drew; Marsh, Elizabeth J. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2023
People rely on the internet for easy access to information, setting up potential confusion about the boundaries between an individual's knowledge and the information they find online. Across four experiments, we replicated and extended past work showing that online searching inflates people's confidence in their knowledge. Participants who…
Descriptors: Internet, Access to Information, Online Searching, Knowledge Level
Kemp, Paige L.; Alexander, Timothy R.; Wahlheim, Christopher N. – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2022
Fake news can impair memory leading to societal controversies such as COVID-19 vaccine efficacy. The pernicious influence of fake news is clear when ineffective corrections leave memories outdated. A key theoretical issue is whether people should recall fake news while reading corrections with contradictory details. The familiarity backfire view…
Descriptors: Deception, News Reporting, Memory, Social Problems
Usher, Lauren V.; Burrows, Catherine A.; Messinger, Daniel S.; Henderson, Heather A. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018
This study compared how adolescents with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD) evaluated unfamiliar peers (i.e., perceptions), as well as how adolescents believed they were evaluated by peers (i.e., metaperceptions). The Perceptions and Metaperceptions Questionnaire was designed to quantify perceptions and metaperceptions following a live…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Questionnaires, Attitude Measures
Swire, Briony; Ecker, Ullrich K. H.; Lewandowsky, Stephan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
People frequently continue to use inaccurate information in their reasoning even after a credible retraction has been presented. This phenomenon is often referred to as the continued influence effect of misinformation. The repetition of the original misconception within a retraction could contribute to this phenomenon, as it could inadvertently…
Descriptors: Information Utilization, Familiarity, Error Correction, Misconceptions
Download full textCanbulat, Tuncay; Kiriktas, Halit – Journal of Education and Learning, 2017
The aim of study is to determine the neuromyth level of teachers and pre-teachers and reveal if there is significant difference in terms of some variables (gender, class, etc.). Research was designed in survey model. The research sample was formed with 241 teachers and 511 teacher candidates. In the collection of data, "Educational neuromyths…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Misconceptions, Predictor Variables, Gender Differences
Novick, Laura R.; Catley, Kefyn M. – Science Education, 2014
Science is an important domain for investigating students' responses to information that contradicts their prior knowledge. In previous studies of this topic, this information was communicated verbally. The present research used diagrams, specifically trees (cladograms) depicting evolutionary relationships among taxa. Effects of college…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Evolution, Taxonomy, College Students
