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Testing models of decision making using confidence ratings in classification

J D Balakrishnan1, R Ratcliff

  • 1Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA. jdb@psych.purdue.edu

Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance
|June 1, 1996
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This study introduces a novel method to analyze decision-making processes by examining confidence ratings. The findings suggest that the distance-from-criterion model better explains decision-making than the optimal model in various experiments.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Decision Science
  • Psychophysics

Background:

  • Traditional signal detection theory (SDT) analysis of decision-making is limited by assumptions of normal noise and the indistinguishable predictions of optimal and distance-from-criterion models.
  • Distinguishing between these decision models is crucial for understanding cognitive processes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a method for determining if a decision process is optimal without assuming specific encoding distributions.
  • To empirically compare the predictive power of the optimal model versus the distance-from-criterion model in classification tasks.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of distributional properties of confidence ratings.
  • Empirical testing across three experimental paradigms: recognition memory, perceptual discrimination, and perceptual categorization.

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Main Results:

  • The proposed method successfully differentiated between decision models based on confidence rating distributions.
  • Data from all three experiments consistently favored the distance-from-criterion model over the optimal model.

Conclusions:

  • Confidence ratings offer valuable distributional information to discern decision-making strategies.
  • The distance-from-criterion model provides a more accurate account of decision processes in recognition memory, perceptual discrimination, and categorization than the optimal model.