Article on Cognitive Mechanisms in Children

What are the main cognitive mechanisms discussed in the article that help children to select the best informant?

• Metacognition and theory of mind

• Memory and attention

• Perception and emotion

• Language and communication

In Experiment 2, what was found to be related?

• Selective social learning and belief reasoning

• Selective social learning and metacognition

• Theory of mind and belief reasoning

• Metacognition and belief reasoning

According to the text, preschoolers preferentially learn from informants who have shown which of the following characteristics?

• Have been inaccurate in the past

• Appear to be unconfident

• Have had visual access to relevant information

• Have provided unreliable information sources

The successful application of Type II cognitive strategies relies on which of the following, according to Hermes et al., 2018?

• Implicit and automatic strategies

• Flexible and conscious cognitive tools

• Lower-order cognitive strategies

• Nonverbal expressions of uncertainty

Which cognitive ability is described as being directly involved in at least a subset of socially motivated decision making, such as deliberating on the trustworthiness of a source?

• Theory of mind

• Metacognition

• Associative learning

• Inhibitory control

What does the term 'mind-reading' broadly refer to in the context of the text?

• The ability to read text quickly and efficiently

• The ability to reflect on one's own mental states

• Individuals' ability to reflect on other people's mental states

• The process of learning through observation

According to the text, what is metacognition defined as?

• The ability to focus on learning rather than on abilities.

• Awareness of one's own cognitive processes, that is, thinking about thinking.

• The ability to perform selective learning tasks.

• The process of learning social skills through observation.

What did Frith (2012) point out regarding the ability to self-correct during tasks?

• It is dependent on the ability to explicitly register a mistake.

• It is only present in children with autism spectrum disorder.

• It is not dependent on the ability to explicitly register a mistake.

• It is a result of direct teaching and learning.

What were the three scenarios called in the metacognition task?

• Full Knowledge, Partial Knowledge, and Ignorance trials

• Correct, Incorrect, and Guessing trials

• Ask, Label, and Endorse trials

• Explicit Judgment, Implicit Judgment, and Counterbalancing trials

In the metacognition knowledge monitoring task, which trial type did children perform worse on compared to the Full Knowledge trials?

• Partial Knowledge trials

• Ignorance trials

• Both Partial Knowledge and Ignorance trials

• Neither Partial Knowledge nor Ignorance trials