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Sophie Wacker; Claudia M. Roebers – Metacognition and Learning, 2024
When young children evaluate their confidence, their monitoring is often overoptimistic, that is, inaccurate. The present study investigated a potential underlying mechanism for kindergarteners' and second graders' overconfidence within a paired associates learning paradigm. We implemented a pre-monitoring phase motivating children to…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Decision Making, Comparative Analysis, Student Motivation
Young, Philip B. – 1975
False recognition responses of high and low SES kindergarten subjects to associatively and acoustically related words were measured. Acoustic attribute dominance for all subjects, and relatively greater acoustic attribute dominance for low SES subjects was predicted. Results indicated that subjects encoded on both attribute dimensions, with low…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Associative Learning, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception