Psychological Development and Education ›› 2020, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (3): 289-295.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2020.03.05

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The Effect of Decision Confidence Calibration Level on Metacognitive Monitoring

LEI Wei1,2, LIU Kezhi1, LIANG Xuemei1, CHEN Jing1,2   

  1. 1. Psychiatry Department, the Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou 646000;
    2. Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Luzhou 646000
  • Published:2020-06-02

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Abstract: Decision confidence is the subjective evaluation of the correctness of one's own decision-making, and a metacognitive experience of the decision-making process. Decision confidence calibration refers to the association between subjective confidence level and objective decision accuracy, which can be indexed by the correlation coefficient between the confidence level and decision accuracy or the area under receiver operating characteristic curve (Aroc) in Type II signal detection theory. Previous studies have found that prompted decision confidence rating can increase metacognitive monitoring effect on current or subsequent decisions, but it is not clear whether this effect depends on the level of individual decision confidence calibration. This study explored how the decision confidence calibration level (Aroc) would affect the effect of metacognitive monitoring, by setting two conditions: with and without confidence rating after perceptual decision. The results showed that: 1) Compared to decisions without confidence rating, decisions with confidence rating have significantly longer response time and higher accuracy (p<0.005). 2) Aroc value was positively correlation with the increased accuracy (accuracy of decisions with confidence rating minus accuracy of decisions without confidence rating) (r=0.25, p=0.034), and the increased accuracy in the high Aroc group was significantly higher than that in the low Aroc group (p<0.05). These results suggested that prompted confidence rating could enhance the metacognitive monitoring effect, i.e. increase the decision response time and improve the decision accuracy. And, this effect depend on the level of decision confidence calibration, individual with higher decision confidence calibration level showing better monitoring effect.

Key words: decision confidence, decision confidence calibration, metacognitive ability, metacognitive monitoring effect

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