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The Relationship Between Previous Psychology Knowledge, Confidence, and A Knowledge Test in Psychology.
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Matt Ott The Relationship Between Previous Psychology Knowledge, Confidence, and A Knowledge Test in Psychology. Abstract This study sets out to ascertain whether psychology is simple common sense, by testing a relationship between previous psychology knowledge, performance in a knowledge test in the subject and the participants' confidence in their knowledge. 70 psychology students were presented with a multiple-choice test (a replication of the same used by Furnham (1996)) which set out to test their knowledge of a wide range of psychological theories, concepts and beliefs. Participants were to answer all 40 questions and then state whether or not they had done psychology A-level on the answer sheet. By giving an estimate of their score the students also exhibited their confidence in their knowledge. Findings showed that previous knowledge does lead to greater performance on the test, yet does not hold any relationship with confidence, which in turn has a good correlation...
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