Citation

González-Vallejo C, Bonham A. Acta Psychol. 2007; 125(2): 221-239.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Ohio University, 200 Porter Hall, Athens, OH 45701, USA. gonzalez@ohiou.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.actpsy.2006.07.010

PMID

16962061

Abstract

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.

Language: en