9. Metacognition

Question 1

What is metacognition?

Answer 1

• reflecting on the content of your mind
• thinking about thinking

Question 2

What are metacognitive judgements?
give examples

Answer 2

they are perceptions of your own mental state
examples:
- confidence
- awareness

Question 3

What is confirmation bias?

Answer 3

• preference for seeking information that can only confirm your existing beliefs, not contradict it
• about active search for info

Question 4

What 2 errors are usually involved in an error?

Answer 4

1. making a wrong choice
2. thinking you’ve made the right choice

error + metacognitive error

Question 5

What is misattribution?

Answer 5

• making errors in identifying the cause of something

Question 6

What is the mere exposure effect?

Answer 6

• the idea that already having encountered something encourages future preference
• this is not consciously acknowledged
• often used in marketing

Question 7

How does fluency explain recognition and MME?

Answer 7

• exposure means that stimuli is processed with ease
• this can be interpreted as being pleasing

Question 8

What is mental contamination?

Answer 8

• process by which a person has an unwanted response because of mental processing that is unconscious/uncontrollable

Question 9

What is the illusion of explanatory depth?

Answer 9

• most people feel they understand the world with far greater detail, coherence and depth than they really do

Question 10

What is the dunning-kruger effect?

Answer 10

• we are not always aware of errors in judgement