Department of Psychology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
PLoS One. 2022 Sep 15;17(9):e0274460. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0274460. eCollection 2022.
When children evaluate their certainty, monitoring is often inaccurate. Even though young children struggle to estimate their confidence, existing research shows that monitoring skills are developing earlier than expected. Using a paired associates learning task with integrated monitoring, we implemented a time window to-"Stop and Think"-before children generated their answers and evaluated their confidence in the chosen response. Results show that kindergarten and second grade children in the-"Stop and Think"-condition have higher monitoring accuracy than the control group. Implementing a time window thus seems to support children in their evaluation of different certainty levels. Relating individual differences in independently measured inhibitory control skills revealed a correlation between monitoring and inhibition for kindergarteners.
当儿童评估自己的确定性时，监控往往不准确。尽管幼儿在估计自己的信心方面存在困难，但现有研究表明，监控技能的发展比预期的要早。我们使用带有集成监控的配对联想学习任务，在儿童生成答案之前设置一个时间窗口-"停止并思考"，然后评估他们对所选答案的信心。结果表明，在-"停止并思考"条件下的幼儿园和二年级儿童的监控准确性高于对照组。因此，实施时间窗口似乎可以支持儿童评估不同的确定性水平。将独立测量的抑制控制技能的个体差异与监控联系起来，发现幼儿园儿童的监控和抑制之间存在相关性。
