Speaking About Metacognition: A Developing Ability in Young Children
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Title:
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Speaking About Metacognition: A Developing Ability in Young Children |
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Author:
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Nathanson, Richard A.
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Advisor:
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Schull, Jonathan
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Department:
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Haverford College. Dept. of Psychology |
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Type:
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Thesis (B.A.) |
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Issue Date:
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1992 |
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Abstract:
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The development of metacognition in nursery school children was examined in this
study. Our computer program encouraged the acquisition of a perceptual
discrimination based on the density of dots in a rectangle. Children were rewarded
with small, attractive stickers on correct responses, and were delayed from winning
more stickers on incorrect responses. Once they attained the discrimination, the
program made available a third response, one that provided an escape to the
discrimination task and gave automatic rewards after a short delay. The most
suitable explanation for escaping from a trial is that the subject is responding to a
subjective internal state; he knows that he doesn't know. We also asked subjects to
verbally describe their strategies for responding to the discrimination and for when
they choose to escape from the discrimination. We found that the ability to
verbalize about one's own metacognition is a fundamentally different and higherorder
ability than is the ability to behave metacognitively. Even when children are
capable of metacognition, they don't verbalize about that ability, suggesting that
nonverbal stimuli and assessments are most appropriate for studying metacognition
in children. |
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Subject:
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Metacognition in children -- Testing
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Subject:
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Metacognition in children
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Terms of Use:
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/
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Permanent URL:
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http://hdl.handle.net/10066/8833
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Citation
Nathanson, Richard A..
"Speaking About Metacognition: A Developing Ability in Young Children".
1992. Available electronically from
http://hdl.handle.net/10066/8833.
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