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Can corrective feedback improve recognition memory?

Justin Kantner¹, D Stephen Lindsay

¹University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia V8W 3P5, Canada. jkantner@uvic.ca

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Corrective feedback does not improve recognition memory accuracy or sensitivity. Even when participants could use feedback in other tasks, the memory recognition system remained largely unaffected.

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Neuroscience
Human Memory

Background:

Understanding corrective feedback's impact on recognition memory is crucial for memory theory and training.
Previous research suggests feedback doesn't enhance recognition accuracy, but its effect on sensitivity and under controlled processing conditions is less understood.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the effects of corrective feedback on recognition memory performance, particularly on sensitivity and response bias.
To explore whether controlled processing conditions can facilitate a feedback advantage in recognition memory.

Main Methods:

Four experiments were conducted using different encoding strategies (deep vs. shallow), base rate discrimination tasks, false-memory procedures, and categorization tasks.
Participants received corrective feedback after making recognition judgments.

Main Results:

Feedback did not improve recognition accuracy or sensitivity across experiments.
Feedback significantly influenced response bias by aiding participants in discerning uneven base rates of old and new items.
Feedback failed to reduce false recognition in a false-memory task and was not utilized to learn a category rule in a related task.

Conclusions:

The human recognition memory system appears largely resistant to the benefits of corrective feedback, even when controlled processing is encouraged.
While feedback can influence response bias, it does not enhance the fundamental accuracy or sensitivity of recognition memory.