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.

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The study found that under free-report conditions, accuracy increased without a significant decrease in correct answers reported. This suggests that participants were able to selectively report only the answers they were confident in, leading to a higher overall accuracy rate compared to being forced to answer all questions.

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