Question order bias in retrospective evaluations of item and associative recognition
| Autor: | Robert L. Greene, Abigail Jackson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Metacognition 050105 experimental psychology Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences Cognition 0302 clinical medicine Bias Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Memory Retrospective memory Perception Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences General knowledge General Psychology Associative property Retrospective Studies media_common Generality 05 social sciences Recognition Psychology Test (assessment) Mental Recall Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Memory. 25:481-486 |
| ISSN: | 1464-0686 0965-8211 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09658211.2016.1188964 |
| Popis: | Previous research has demonstrated a retrospective memory bias in metacognitive judgments regarding performance on general knowledge questions: Test-takers rate their own performance more optimistically when tests begin with easy questions than when tests begin with hard questions. An anchoring heuristic has been proposed to explain this finding, in which experience with the early questions constrains global performance evaluations of the test. In the current study we report on two experiments using tasks of item recognition and associative recognition to investigate the generality of question order bias. As predicted by an anchoring explanation, participants' estimates of performance were higher for item recognition tests beginning with easy items. However, the effect was reversed in the associative recognition task: Participants' estimates of performance were higher for tests beginning with hard items. Specific recollections, if present, may have a greater impact on test performance perception than more general global impressions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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