It's not what you know, it's what you know you know. Insight into your own face matching performance means that you can identify the face pairs that you may have answered incorrectly, choose to spend more time on these items, and improve your overall performance: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Metacognitive insight improves unfamiliar face matching through effective resource allocation - Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications
Metacognitive insight—the ability to monitor one’s own performance—enables efficient allocation of limited resources, but whether this mechanism underlies performance on perceptual tasks has never bee...