A Domain-General Sense of Confidence in Children
| Autor: | Inderpreet K. Gill, Carolyn Baer, Darko Odic |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Linguistics and Language
Cognitive Neuroscience media_common.quotation_subject Metacognition Experimental and Cognitive Psychology lcsh:Consciousness. Cognition 050105 experimental psychology Developmental and Educational Psychology Approximate number system 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 10. No inequality development media_common approximate number system 05 social sciences lcsh:QP351-495 A domain Sense (electronics) Certainty lcsh:BF309-499 lcsh:Neurophysiology and neuropsychology Work (electrical) Currency confidence Psychology metacognition 050104 developmental & child psychology Cognitive psychology certainty |
| Zdroj: | Open Mind, Vol 2, Iss 2, Pp 86-96 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 2470-2986 |
| DOI: | 10.1162/opmi_a_00020 |
| Popis: | Our minds constantly evaluate the confidence in what we see, think, and remember. Previous work suggests that confidence is a domain-general currency in adulthood, unifying otherwise independent sensory and perceptual representations. Here, we test whether children also possess a domain-general sense of confidence over otherwise independent perceptual dimensions. Six- to 9-year-olds completed either three simple perceptual discrimination tasks—a number task (“Which group has more dots?”), an area task (“Which blob is bigger?”), and an emotions task (“Which face is happier?”)—or three relative confidence tasks, selecting which of two trials they are more confident on. We find that while children’s discrimination performance across the three tasks was independent and constituted three separate factors, children’s confidence in each of three dimensions was strongly correlated and constituted only a single factor. Our results suggest that confidence is a domain-general currency even in childhood, providing a mechanism by which disparate perceptual representations could be integrated. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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