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O'Leary, Allison P.; Sloutsky, Vladimir M. – Grantee Submission, 2019
It is often argued that metacognition includes 2 components: monitoring and control. However, it is unclear whether these components can operate independently, or whether they always operate as part of a hierarchy. The current study attempts to address this issue. In Experiment 1 (N 90), age-related differences were assessed to examine the…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Age Differences, Individual Development, Young Children
Plebanek, Daniel J.; Sloutsky, Vladimir M. – Grantee Submission, 2017
One of the lawlike regularities of psychological science is that of developmental progression--an increase in sensorimotor, cognitive, and social functioning from childhood to adulthood. Here, we report a rare violation of this law, a developmental reversal in attention. In Experiment 1, 4­- to 5­- year ­olds (n = 34) and adults (n = 35) performed…
Descriptors: Attention, Young Children, Adults, Age Differences
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Deng, Wei; Sloutsky, Vladimir M. – Grantee Submission, 2016
How do people learn categories and what changes with development? The current study attempts to address these questions by focusing on the role of attention in the development of categorization. In Experiment 1, participants (adults, 7-year-olds, and 4-year-olds) were trained with novel categories consisting of deterministic and probabilistic…
Descriptors: Classification, Attention, Cognitive Development, Adults