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====Metacognition==== People are poorer at predicting their own [[metacognition]] for insight problems, than for non-insight problems.<ref name="Metcalfe & Wiebe (1987)">{{cite journal|last1=Metcalfe|first1=Janet|first2=David|last2= Wiebe|title=Intuition in insight and noninsight problem solving|journal=Memory & Cognition|year=1987|volume=15|issue=3|pages=238β246| doi= 10.3758/BF03197722 |pmid= 3600264|doi-access=free}}</ref> People were asked to indicate how "hot" or "cold" to a solution they felt. Generally, they were able to predict this fairly well for non-insight problems, but not for insight problems.<ref name= "Metcalfe & Wiebe (1987)" /> This provides evidence for the suddenness involved during insight.
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