Predicting feedback effects from response-certitude estimates

Abstract

To test a control model that related feedback and response-certitude estimates, subjects responded to multiple-choice items, received either verification or elaboration feedback, and answered the items again on both immediate and 1-week-delay tests. Feedback study time was linearly related to a discrepancy index that combined initial item status with certitude estimates. For both initial corrects and errors, conditional probabilities of subsequent correct responding were related in a theoretically relevant manner. © 1992, Psychonomic Society, Inc.. All rights reserved.