An evaluation between confidence judgments and differences in monitoring ability

Metacognition is the awareness of a person's thinking and the ability to regulate that thinKing This study examines how confident a person is at monitoring progress during two cognitive tasks. The fast task was the feeling-of-knowing paradigm, when participants judge how accurately they can retrieve an answer in a recognition task, when they cannot retrieve the answer in free recall. The second task was a paired-associate interference paradigm. Participants were presented with a list of noun-noun pairs twice and then a new list was presented for recall. Participants were placed into three groups (high, medium, low) based on responses to the Metacognitive Awareness Inventory. Results showed no significant differences between groups in either task. The results are discussed in terms of measuring strategy knowledge instead of monitoring.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Educational Psychology

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Year

2001

Author dc:creator

• Campbell, Brett Douglas

Contributors dc:contributor

• Alice J. Corkill

Statement dc:rights

• IN COPYRIGHT. For more information about this rights statement, please visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

https://oasis.library.unlv.edu/rtds/1352

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:oasis.library.unlv.edu:rtds-2351