Koriat and Goldsmith (1996) Compared Situations in Which Participants Were

Multiple Choice

Koriat and Goldsmith (1996) compared situations in which participants were forced to answer general-information questions to situation in which participants only answered those they felt confident that their retrieved answer was correct (free report) .They found that:

A) under free-report conditions, accuracy was significantly impaired.
B) under free-report conditions, many fewer correct answers were reported.
C) under free-report conditions, accuracy declined, but correct answers actually increased.
D) under free-report conditions, accuracy increased without a significant decrease in correct answers reported.