Retrieval processes underlying confidence in comprehension judgments.

Abstract

To observe momentary accessibility and assess its influence on confidence judgments, the present study uses a speeded-recall task and retrieval measures that are not based on accuracy per se. On each trial in this task, a memory probe (text title) appears on a video screen, and the subject has only 15 or 20 s to speak recall output into a microphone. Three measures of retrieval are taken: total number of content words produced, latency to initial output, and production rate after initial output