Metacognitive failure: a persistent illusion whereby familiarity with material-to-be-learnt induces overconfidence that it can be successfully recalled (corollary: if the learners could be shown the ineffectiveness of naive learning practices they would change how they study).
This is due to the physiological familiarity of these materials, which can facilitate immunogenic response, lead to material degradation or unexpectedly initiate signalling pathways.
For example, it is reasonable to expect that familiarity with teaching materials would be positively associated with confidence in teaching evolution material and negatively associated with obstacles to finding a supportive teaching environment.
Mouse investigation time was also compared to other aspects of human olfactory perception represented by intensity and familiarity ratings (see Materials and Methods): no correlation was found, either with intensity (t 89) = 1.048, p>.05) or familiarity rating (t 89) = .340, p>.05).
In a novel of ample graces, Clark's real strength is his familiarity with the material.
Faith's skill is to convince you of the familiarity of her material.
Here, too, far from dulling her enthusiasm, long familiarity with the material has only enhanced it.
The series's lack of urgency is accentuated by the familiarity of the material.
Her familiarity with the material – as easily memorizable to you as it is to her – even feels smart.
As usual, LaVette's vocals are unimpeachable, and the extreme familiarity of the material only occasionally sounds like top-notch karaoke.
