Aligning confidence with accuracy: revisiting the role of feedback.
Evaluation point feedback was used to align confidence judgments with accurate/inaccurate responding to general knowledge questions. Rehearsal of item-answer pairs and three evaluation systems based on a scoring rule had different effects on confidence, accuracy and their relationship. Using standard calibration measures (Yates, J.F., (1990). Judgment and Decision Making. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall) we found that a point system comprising of both rewarding (positive) and punishing (negative) consequences produced the best performance across levels of knowledge in comparison to all-rewarding and all-penalty rules.
González-Vallejo
Claudia
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Department of Psychology, Ohio University, 200 Porter Hall, Athens, OH 45701, USA. gonzalez@ohiou.edu
Bonham
Aaron
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D000704:Analysis of Variance; D003463:Cues; D003657:Decision Making / Q000502:physiology; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological / Q000502:physiology; D005246:Feedback / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment / Q000502:physiology*; D007721:Knowledge of Results, Psychological; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology; D012649:Self Concept; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis