Confidence-accuracy calibration with general knowledge and eyewitness memory cued recall questions.

Applied Cognitive Psychology. 2012. Vol. 26. P. 289–295.

Luna K., Martín-Luengo B.

The confidence–accuracy relationship has primarily been studied through recognition tests and correlation analysis. However, cued recall is more ecological from a forensic perspective. Moreover, there may be more informative ways of analysing the confidence–accuracy relationship than correlations. In the present study, participants viewed a video of a bank robbery and were asked cued recall questions covering general knowledge and the video itself. Confidence ratings were collected, and correlations, calibration and discrimination measures were calculated. All measures indicated a strong confidence–accuracy relationship that was better for general knowledge than eyewitness memory questions. However, there were no differences in confidence ratings for correct answers, suggesting that the differences could be limited to the evaluation of incorrect answers. We concluded that confidence may be a good marker for accuracy with cued recall, but that further research using ecological tests and more informative data analysis techniques is needed.

Keywords: memory, calibration, confidence-accuracy, cued recall questions, general knowledge questions, eyewitness memory

Publication based on the results of: Активное и пассивное декодирование нейрональных процессов при выполнении когнитивных и нейроэкономических задач (2017)