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Confidence-accuracy inversions in scene recognition: a remember-know analysis

I G Dobbins1, N E Kroll, Q Liu

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis 95616-8686, USA. igdobbins@ucdavis.edu

Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition
|September 25, 1998
PubMed
Summary

This study challenges signal-detection theory by showing confidence and accuracy dissociate in memory recall. "Remember" judgments rely on distinctiveness, unlike familiarity-based "knowing."

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Memory Research

Background:

  • Replication of E. Tulving's (1981) experiments on memory.
  • Investigating S. E. Clark's (1997) signal-detection explanation for confidence-accuracy inversions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the dissociation between confidence and accuracy in memory recall.
  • To test the applicability of signal-detection theory to different types of memory judgments.
  • To propose an alternative explanation for "remember" performance.

Main Methods:

  • Participants made "remember-familiar" judgments in a pictorial study.
  • Replication of E. Tulving's (1981) experimental paradigm.
  • Analysis of confidence and accuracy across subjective reports.

Main Results:

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  • Confidence and accuracy dissociated across subjective reports.
  • Response confidence varied with familiarity judgments, while accuracy varied with "remember" responses.
  • S. E. Clark's model failed to predict or mimic "remember" performance.

Conclusions:

  • "Knowing" can be explained by signal-detection theory, but "remembering" requires a different account.
  • "Remembering" is influenced by contextual constraints affecting information distinctiveness.
  • The findings challenge existing signal-detection models of memory confidence and accuracy.