Young and older adults make accurate retrospective confidence judgments but not prospective ease-of-selection judgments about their arithmetic strategy selections¶

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Subclaims¶

q3 i? A'ROC metacognitive accuracy exceeded chance (.50) for RCJ but not for EoS judgments in both age groups across both tasks. → Marie Geurten & Patrick Lemaire 2017

Evidence¶

Marie Geurten & Patrick Lemaire 2017¶

Marie Geurten & Patrick Lemaire. (2017). Metacognition for Strategy Selection during Arithmetic Problem Solving in Young and Older Adults. https://www.google.com/search?q=Metacognition+for+Strategy+Selection+during+Arithmetic+Problem+Solving+in+Young+and+Older+Adults

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Experiment with 37 young and 29 older adults; t tests compared A'ROC indexes to chance in selection-execution and selection-only tasks. The coefficients were "significantly larger than .50 in both young and older adults for the RCJ, but not for the EoS judgments". No effect size printed.

"results of the t tests comparing A' ROC indexes to chance showed that the metacognitive coefficients were significantly larger than .50 in both young and older adults for the RCJ, but not for the EoS judgments"

Discussion¶

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• Older adults show higher retrospective metacognitive accuracy than young adults in the selection-only task, especially on homogeneous unit-digit problems, but comparable accuracy in the selection-execution task — related
• Collecting metacognitive judgments did not disrupt typical strategy selection and execution: both age groups selected the better strategy more on rounding-up homogeneous problems and executed rounding-down faster on homogeneous problems — related
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• Eliciting confidence ratings leads to poorer metacognitive monitoring in older adults — related
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