retrospective confidence judgment

an individual’s assessment of how well he or she did on a test, typically one involving recall of learned information. Such judgments tend to be only weakly correlated with a participant’s actual performance on the test. Compare ease-of-learning judgment.

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November 25th 2024

malevolent transformation

the feeling that one lives among enemies and can trust no one. This attitude, purported to be the result of harsh or unfair treatment during childhood, has been posited to be the basis for social withdrawal, hostility, and, in some cases, mental disorder of a persecutory nature. [first described by Harry Stack Sullivan]