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Evidence of metacognitive awareness in young children who have experienced a repeated event
Author(s) -
Roberts Kim P.,
Powell Martine B.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
applied cognitive psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.719
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1099-0720
pISSN - 0888-4080
DOI - 10.1002/acp.1145
Subject(s) - psychology , misinformation , metacognition , event (particle physics) , developmental psychology , event related potential , cognition , cognitive psychology , psychiatry , physics , quantum mechanics , political science , law
Two studies examined children's confidence judgments in the accuracy of their memories after repeated experience of an event. Children aged 5 to 6 years took part in an event once or four times, were provided with misinformation either shortly after (Study 1) or a while after (Study 2), and interviewed with yes/no recognition questions 3 months later. Children in the repeated‐experience conditions were highly confident of their accurate responses to questions about items that were identical rather than variable across occurrences, and this discrimination was best at the shorter delay. The results show that children were able to metacognitively monitor the accuracy of their responses to qualitatively different kinds of details, and indicate that age is not the only determinant of metacognitive awareness after being misled. Rather, the nature of event representations must also be considered. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.