Affiliation:
1. Jackson State University
Abstract
The relationship between familiarity of stimulus-words and confidence in responses on a verbal meaning test was evaluated for 35 male and 53 female black undergraduate students. There were significant positive correlations (.72 for males, p < .01; .79 for females, p < .01) between familiarity and confidence. Partial correlations between confidence and test scores, when familiarity was partialled out, were .12 ( p > .05) for the males and .22 ( p > .05) for the females. About one-third of subjects' responses were guesses or outcome of being misled by familiarity.