Topic
Metacognition research, explained
7 open-access metacognition studies, each with a flashcard deck and a quiz.
- Can we train ourselves to judge our own minds better?
Providing targeted feedback on the accuracy of people's confidence ratings can improve their overall ability to monitor their own performance, even on completely untrained tasks.
- Does our ability to judge our own performance decline as we age?
While older adults can perform visual tasks just as accurately as younger adults, their ability to judge the accuracy of their own decisions decreases over time.
- Are We More Accurate at Judging Future or Past Decisions?
People are significantly better at judging the accuracy of their decisions after they have made them compared to beforehand.
- Can people know they are right when they are guessing?
People can accurately judge whether their decisions are correct even when their overall decision accuracy is completely at chance.
- Does our self-awareness change as we grow older?
As people age, their overall confidence in their performance decreases, but their actual ability to evaluate individual decisions remains just as accurate.
- How does visual uncertainty affect our confidence in what we see?
When people fail to notice an object due to a temporary lapse in attention, they are better at evaluating their own mistake than when the object is physically blurred.
- Do child witnesses' confidence levels show how accurate they are?
Despite legal beliefs that child eyewitnesses are unreliable, older children can use confidence ratings to signal the accuracy of their identifications.