THE ACCURACY OF FEELING-OF-KNOWING JUDGMENTS FOR GENERAL-INFORMATION QUESTIONS USING THE RECALL RETEST METHOD

The present research examined the accuracy of the feeling-of-knowing judgments by using the recall retest method. Sixty-five undergraduate and graduate students were asked to answer 216 general-information questions, and also asked to judge the degree of their feeling of knowing on a 7-point scale for unrecalled answers. The subjects were re-tested without advance notice 36 weeks later. The results showed that the feeling-of-knowing judgment is a fairly reliable predictor for the success in the second test. The consistency with the previous studies using recognition as a criterion test is discussed in terms of guessing likelihood in answering questions.