diff --git a/src/requests/models.py b/src/requests/models.py
index 8f56ca7d23..31ac5ea102 100644
--- a/src/requests/models.py
+++ b/src/requests/models.py
@@ -945,7 +945,7 @@ def text(self):
         return content
 
     def json(self, **kwargs):
-        r"""Returns the json-encoded content of a response, if any.
+        r"""Returns the json-decoded dict of a response, if any.
 
         :param \*\*kwargs: Optional arguments that ``json.loads`` takes.
         :raises requests.exceptions.JSONDecodeError: If the response body does not