I Don't Want to Pick! Introspection on Uncertainty Supports Early Strategic Behavior

Autor/inn/en	Lyons, Kristen E.; Ghetti, Simona
Titel	I Don't Want to Pick! Introspection on Uncertainty Supports Early Strategic Behavior
Quelle	In: Child Development, 84 (2013) 2, S.726-736 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/cdev.12004
Schlagwörter	Child Development; Behavior Problems; Hypothesis Testing; Individual Differences; Metacognition; Perceptual Development; Tests; Task Analysis; Toddlers; Young Children; Prediction; Inhibition; Responses; Cognitive Development; Child Behavior; Visual Stimuli + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kindesentwicklung; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Individueller Unterschied; Meta cognitive ability; Meta-cognition; Metakognitive Fähigkeit; Metakognition; Wahrnehmungsentwicklung; Examination; Prüfung; Examen; Aufgabenanalyse; Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Frühe Kindheit; Vorhersage; Hemmung; Kognitive Entwicklung
Abstract	Although some evidence indicates that even very young children engage in rudimentary forms of strategic behavior, the underlying mechanisms remain largely unknown. This study tested the hypothesis that uncertainty monitoring underlies such behaviors. Three-, four-, and five-year-old children ("N" = 88) completed a perceptual discrimination task. Results indicated that children are more likely to withhold (vs. volunteer) responses on trials for which, when forced to provide an answer, they report subjective uncertainty (vs. subjective certainty). Furthermore, uncertainty monitoring positively predicted the strategic regulation of accuracy via withholding of incorrect responses, even when controlling for individual differences in inhibitory control. Overall, results suggest that children's awareness of their own knowledge states contributes to early strategic behavior. (Contains 3 figures and 4 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10