Stop and Think: Additional Time Supports Monitoring Processes in Young Children

Overview

Journal PLoS One

Specialties General Medicine
Science

Date 2022 Sep 15

PMID 36107922

Authors

Sophie Wacker

Claudia M Roebers

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Abstract

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.

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