Partial Knowledge, Distractor Elimination, and Fok Accuracy
(1994) Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive — Vol. 13, n° 6, p. 833-844 (1994)
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- There is increasing evidence that the feeling of knowing judgment (FOK) may rely on cue familiarity or partial knowledge of the answer. Koriat (1993, 1994) and Nelson and Narens (1991) suggest that the FOK judgment may be determined from already retrieved relevant information. If this is so, there should be a relationship between the amount of knowledge available to the subject regarding a question, the FOK expressed, and its validity as a predictor of recognition. It would also be natural for partial knowledge of this kind to simultaneously help in the recognition test, thereby increasing FOK accuracy. Using a recognition test designed to assess the effect of distractor elimination strategies, we found (1) that the FOK judgment does correlate with the number of distractors a subject is able to eliminate before choosing an alternative, and (2) that FOK accuracy is strongly reduced when the effect of that strategy is partialled out.
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Lories, G. (1994). Partial Knowledge, Distractor Elimination, and Fok Accuracy. Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive, 13(6), 833-844. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/86640 (Original work published 1994)