Intellectually gifted and nongifted children’s inference from partial knowledge

Autor: Swanson, H.Lee, Kontos, Susan, Frazer, Connell
Zdroj: Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society; January 1987, Vol. 25 Issue: 1 p35-37, 3p
Abstrakt: The present study explored the notion that children of different intellectual abilities vary in their metajudgment when they have partial knowledge. Gifted and average childen rated the likelihood that a protagonist who had knowledge or lack of knowledge about a category of items would remember a particular item of high or low salience. The protagonist was further portrayed as an expert or novice who had previously remembered a large or small set of items. The results show that average children are more likely than gifted children to rate the lack-of-knowledge protagonist as remembering an item. This was especially true when the protagonist was portrayed as an expert who previously had remembered a large number set, and the item to be remembered was highly salient. In contrast, gifted children are less sensitive than average children to the extremity factors of expertise, large set size, and high item salience.
Databáze: Supplemental Index