Metacognitive Domain-specificity: Evidence from Perceptual and Higher-order Metacognition

Abstract

Abstract: The current study explored whether the perceptual metacognition and higher-order metacognition are domain-specific by three experiments. In Experiment 1, we selected 26 college students as participants to explore the relationship of metacognitive abilities between two visual perception tasks. In Experiment 2, 30 college students were selected to explore the relationship of metacognitive abilities between two memory monitoring tasks. In Experiment 3, 30 college students were selected to explore the relationship of metacognitive abilities between memory monitoring tasks with high similarity. The results showed that metacognitive abilities on different tasks were not relevant in all three experiments, indicating that perceptual metacognitive ability and higher-order metacognitive ability are domain-specific.

Key words: perceptual metacognition, higher-order metacognition, domain-generality, domain-specificity

摘要： 该研究通过三个实验，分别考察了知觉元认知和高阶元认知是否均具有跨任务的领域特殊性。实验1选取26名大学生被试，探讨了视知觉领域内两个任务上元认知之间的关系。实验2选取30名大学生被试，探讨了个体对词语和图片任务的记忆监测能力之间的关系。实验3选取30名大学生被试，探讨了个体在呈现方式不同的两个词语记忆任务上，记忆监测能力之间的关系。结果表明，无论是知觉元认知还是高阶元认知，不同任务上的元认知能力并不相关，说明知觉元认知与高阶元认知能力在任务水平上具有领域特殊性。

关键词: 知觉元认知, 高阶元认知, 领域一般, 领域特殊

CLC Number:

B842.1

DENG Chunting, LIU Yan. Metacognitive Domain-specificity: Evidence from Perceptual and Higher-order Metacognition[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2019, 17(4): 480-487.

邓春婷, 刘岩. 元认知的领域特殊性：来自知觉和高阶层次的证据[J]. 心理与行为研究, 2019, 17(4): 480-487.

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