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phenomenon > metamemory phenomenon > remembered success effect

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remembered success effect  

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  • "When people can remember having been successful or experiencing ease during a challenging task (i.e., experiences with high remembered utility), they prefer this experience to shorter tasks that do not feature any moderate learning or testing opportunities." (Finn & Miele, 2021, p. 622).

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  • • Finn, B. (2010). Ending on a high note : Adding a better end to effortful study. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 36(6), 1548‑1553. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0020605

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Finn, B. (2015). Retrospective utility of educational experiences : Opportunities to broaden motivation theory and classroom applications. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 4(4), 388‑390. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2015.10.001

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Finn, B., & Miele, D. B. (2016). Hitting a high note on math tests : Remembered success influences test preferences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 42(1), 17‑38. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000150

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Finn, B., & Miele, D. B. (2021). Boundary conditions of the remembered success effect. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 10(4), 621–641. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2021.07.009

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

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  • Frank Arnould

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