According to the accessibility hypothesis, how does someone make a metamemory judgment?
A) by determining whether the information contained in a memory cue is familiar
B) by making inferences based on the amount of information activated in memory
C) by determining the number of competing traces that are involved
D) by reconstructing the events in the recent past

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According to the accessibility hypothesis, metamemory judgments are made by making inferences based on the amount of information that is currently activated and available in memory. Therefore, option B is the correct answer. The other options (A, C, and D) are not specific to the accessibility hypothesis and do not accurately describe how metamemory judgments are made according to this theory.

According to the Accessibility Hypothesis, How Does Someone Make a Metamemory