Citation

Hollins TS, Perfect TJ. Leg. Crim. Psychol. 1997; 2(2): 205-218.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, British Psychological Society, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.2044-8333.1997.tb00344.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

It has been found that for eyewitness memory the confidence-accuracy relation is weak, whilst for general knowledge it is robust. Two experiments examine whether confidence in general knowledge could be used as a comparator to improve the confidence-accuracy relation for eyewitness memory. In both experiments participants were shown an eyewitness video, and then randomly allocated to one of four test conditions. Blocked recall and blocked recognition groups completed the eyewitness test first, and then completed the general knowledge test separately. Mixed recall and mixed recognition groups were tested using the same items interlaced to form a single test. In both experiments it was found that the mixed questions produced a significant confidence-accuracy relation for eyewitness memory, but the blocked questions did not. Potential mechanisms for the mixed question type effect are discussed.

Language: en