On the calibration of knowledge and perception.
This study examined confidence judgements (i.e., calibration, resolution, and over/underconfidence) and response times in an intellectual knowledge task and a perceptual task requiring location comparisons. At each of four levels of judgement difficulty (i.e., Easy, Hard, Impossible and Misleading/Illusory), very similar properties were evident in the two tasks. The results are inconsistent with theories that assume a fundamentally different basis for confidence in human knowledge and perception.
Baranski
J V
JV
Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine, North York. joe.baranski@dciem.dnd.ca
Petrusic
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WM
D001288:Attention; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D009949:Orientation; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011340:Problem Solving; D011930:Reaction Time; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology