Cross-task and cross-manipulation stability in shifting the decision criterion

Area of Science:

• Cognitive Psychology
• Human Memory
• Decision Making

Background:

• Recognition memory judgments are influenced by response bias.
• Individuals show significant variability in adjusting response bias to cues.
• Bias shifting is generally predictable within individuals across memory tests.

Purpose of the Study:

• To investigate if response bias shifting generalizes beyond memory tasks.
• To assess the predictability of bias shifting across different experimental manipulations.

Main Methods:

• Experiment 1: Assessed bias shifting in recognition memory and visual perception tasks.
• Experiment 2: Examined bias shifting using probability and response payoff manipulations.

Main Results:

• Bias shifting in recognition memory predicted shifting in visual perception.
• A modest positive relationship was found between probability and payoff manipulations for bias shifting.
• Response bias shifting demonstrated stability across different domains and manipulations.

Conclusions:

• Response bias shifting is a stable individual behavior.
• The capacity to shift response bias generalizes across cognitive domains and experimental designs.