Metacognitive ability increases with age during adolescence and plateaus in adulthood when task performance is held constant¶
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q3 i? In a cross-sectional sample aged 11–41, metacognitive ability (Aroc) showed a significant age × age group interaction, driven by a positive correlation between age and Aroc in adolescents (r = .38, p = .048) and a non-significant negative correlation in adults. → Weil L.G. 2013
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Weil L.G. 2013¶
Weil L.G., Fleming S.M., Dumontheil I., Kilford E.J., Weil R.S., Rees G., Dolan R.J., Blakemore S.-J. (2013). The development of metacognitive ability in adolescence. Consciousness and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2013.01.004
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Cross-sectional behavioural study of 28 adolescents (11–17 years) and 28 adults (19–41 years) on a visual pop-out task with confidence ratings. The age × age group interaction on Aroc was significant (F(1,52) = 6.11, p = .017), with "a significant positive correlation between age and Aroc in the adolescent group".
"The interaction was driven by a significant positive correlation between age and Aroc in the adolescent group (r = .38, p = .048) (Fig. 2A) and a non-significant but negative correlation in the adult group (r = −.22, p = .25)."
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Related Claims¶
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- Combined with adolescent data, the lifespan profile of perceptual metacognitive efficiency is an inverted-U — related
- Perceptual metacognitive efficiency declines with age in healthy adults aged 18–84, even when task performance is controlled — related
- Metacognition is significantly positively correlated with math performance in adolescence (pooled r = .37) — related
- How People Learn II updates and extends the 2000 How People Learn report by synthesizing research on learning from birth through adulthood in formal and informal settings — related
- Confidence ratings shift toward higher confidence across adolescence and decline in adulthood (Broc) — related
- The adolescent improvement in metacognitive ability is independent of perceptual task performance, which was clamped and uncorrelated with age — related
- Memory metacognitive efficiency shows a non-significant negative relationship with age — related
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Metacognitive ability increases with age during adolescence and plateaus in adulthood when task performance is held constant |
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Metacognitive ability increases with age during adolescence and plateaus in adulthood when task performance is held constant |
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2013 |
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2018 |
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