ACCURACY OF CONFIDENCE RATINGS ASSOCIATED WITH GENERAL KNOWLEDGE AND EYEWITNESS MEMORY

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作者
PERFECT, TJ
WATSON, EL
WAGSTAFF, GF
机构
[1] Department of Psychology, University of Liverpool, England
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10.1037/0021-9010.78.1.144
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B849 [应用心理学];
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040203 ;
摘要
The confidence-accuracy (C-A) relation for general knowledge (GK) and eyewitness memory (EM) was compared in both within- and between-subjects analyses. Researchers in the cognitive tradition tend to use within-subjects designs and to find moderately positive C-A relations, whereas those in the forensic tradition tend to use between-subjects designs and to find no relation. Eighty subjects took part in one of two conditions-EM or GK. No difference between conditions was found on the within-subjects measure of the C-A relation, but there was differentiation with a between-subjects measure. There was a strong positive C-A correlation (r = .58, p <.01) for GK but not for EM (r = -.11, ns). One source of this difference may be the differing opportunities for calibration offered by the two kinds of memory.
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