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MENTAL MODEL · M6809

RCJ

RCJ
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Version 1.0.0 · Updated 2026-07-30

CORE DEFINITION

Retrospective Confidence Judgment, a retrospective assessment of one's confidence in the correctness of an answer after completing a task, used to study the accuracy of metacognitive monitoring.

SCAFFOLDING EFFECT

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Metacognitive calibration. By comparing confidence with actual accuracy, it reveals tendencies of overconfidence or underconfidence.

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People's post-hoc confidence in whether they answered correctly often does not match actual accuracy (overconfidence/underconfidence). RCJ measures calibration by comparing self-assessed confidence with objective accuracy, revealing metacognitive monitoring biases, and is a classic measure of metacognitive accuracy.

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