Are you sure? Examining the potential benefits of truth-checking as a learning activity.

ABSTRACT: Learners may be uncertain about whether encountered information is true. Uncertainty may encourage people to critically assess information's accuracy, serving as a kind of desirable difficulty that benefits learning. Uncertainty may also have negative effects, however, leading people to mistrust true information or to later misremember false information as true. In three experiments, participants read history statements. In one condition, all statements were true, and the participants knew it. In the other two conditions, some statements were true, and others were false. Participants were either told the statements' accuracy or they guessed the statements' accuracy prior to feedback, a manipulation we refer to as truth-checking. All participants were then tested on recalling the true infor

SUBMITTER: Arcos K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11295426 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature