The adaptive nature of children's overestimation in a strategic memory task
- Authors
- Shin, H[Shin, HyeEun]; Bjorklund, DF[Bjorklund, David F.]; Beck, EF[Beck, Erinn F.]
- Issue Date
- Apr-2007
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
- Keywords
- overestimation; metacognition; strategic memory
- Citation
- COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT, v.22, no.2, pp.197 - 212
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
- Volume
- 22
- Number
- 2
- Start Page
- 197
- End Page
- 212
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/skku/handle/2021.sw.skku/84733
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.cogdev.2006.10.001
- ISSN
- 0885-2014
- Abstract
- Kindergarten, first-, and third-grade children were given a multitrial sort-recall task with different items on each trial. Children were asked to predict how many items they would recall prior to each trial. We classified children into high- and low-overestimation groups based on their prediction accuracy on the first two trials and assessed changes in recall and strategy use over trials (trials 4/5 minus trials 1/2). Following predictions, at all grades, children in the high-overestimation group showed greater gains (or fewer losses) in recall than children in the low-overestimation group. Differences in strategy use over trials were generally nonsignificant. The results were interpreted as reflecting the adaptive nature of children's overestimation of their cognitive abilities. (C) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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