How feedback can impair recognition judgments and undermine border security, criminal investigations, educational testing, and medical screening

如果海关官员在检查行李时发现遗漏了爆炸装置，这是否会影响他们的判断？在许多情况下，一个人收到关于他们识别记忆表现的反馈，不得不再次尝试，而没有另一次机会学习材料。在没有进一步研究机会的情况下，几乎没有研究考察反馈对识别的影响。这是有问题的，因为许多至关重要的承认决定缺乏这样的机会。使用各种场景（人脸识别，安全检查，多项选择测试和医疗检查），该项目将证明反馈会根据识别决策的性质不同而影响识别性能。

If a customs officer learns that they have missed an explosive device while screening luggage, will this affect their judgment? In many scenarios, a person receives feedback about their recognition memory performance and has to try again without having another chance to study the material. Almost no research has examined the effects of feedback on recognition in the absence of opportunity for further study. This is problematic because many vitally important recognition decisions lack such opportunity. Using various scenarios (face recognition, security screening, multiple-choice testing, and medical screening) this project will demonstrate that feedback affects recognition performance differently depending on the nature of the recognition decision.