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Article on Cognitive Mechanisms in Children

Total questions: 1

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1-20.
1.

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

a)

Metacognition and theory of mind

b)

Memory and attention

c)

Perception and emotion

d)

Language and communication

2.

In Experiment 2, what was found to be related?

a)

Selective social learning and belief reasoning

b)

Selective social learning and metacognition

c)

Theory of mind and belief reasoning

d)

Metacognition and belief reasoning

3.

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

a)

Have been inaccurate in the past

b)

Appear to be unconfident

c)

Have had visual access to relevant information

d)

Have provided unreliable information sources

4.

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

a)

Implicit and automatic strategies

b)

Flexible and conscious cognitive tools

c)

Lower-order cognitive strategies

d)

Nonverbal expressions of uncertainty

5.

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?

a)

Theory of mind

b)

Metacognition

c)

Associative learning

d)

Inhibitory control

6.

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

a)

The ability to read text quickly and efficiently

b)

The ability to reflect on one's own mental states

c)

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

d)

The process of learning through observation

7.

According to the text, what is metacognition defined as?

a)

The ability to focus on learning rather than on abilities.

b)

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

c)

The ability to perform selective learning tasks.

d)

The process of learning social skills through observation.

8.

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

a)

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

b)

It is only present in children with autism spectrum disorder.

c)

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

d)

It is a result of direct teaching and learning.

9.

What were the three scenarios called in the metacognition task?

a)

Full Knowledge, Partial Knowledge, and Ignorance trials

b)

Correct, Incorrect, and Guessing trials

c)

Ask, Label, and Endorse trials

d)

Explicit Judgment, Implicit Judgment, and Counterbalancing trials

10.

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

a)

Partial Knowledge trials

b)

Ignorance trials

c)

Both Partial Knowledge and Ignorance trials

d)

Neither Partial Knowledge nor Ignorance trials

11.

According to Figure 1, which trial type had the highest number of correct judgments?

a)

Full Knowledge

b)

Partial Knowledge

c)

Ignorance

d)

The number of correct judgments was the same for all trial types

12.

In Figure 2, which trial type is associated with the highest number of trials with uncertainty gestures?

a)

Full Knowledge

b)

Partial Knowledge

c)

Ignorance

d)

The number of trials with uncertainty gestures was the same for all trial types

13.

What was the main goal of the study mentioned in the "Intertask analyses" section?

a)

To examine the link between selective social learning and metacognition.

b)

To examine the link between selective social learning and theory of mind.

c)

To examine the link between selective social learning and internal consistency of questionnaires.

d)

To examine the link between selective social learning and COVID-19 pandemic effects.

14.

In the study, children's average performance was statistically significantly above chance when responding to which type of questions?

a)

Implicit judgment questions

b)

Explicit judgment questions

c)

Both implicit and explicit judgment questions

d)

Neither implicit nor explicit judgment questions

15.

According to Figure 4, which condition had the highest number of trials with uncertainty gestures?

a)

Full Knowledge

b)

Partial Knowledge

c)

Ignorance

d)

The figure does not specify

16.

What did the authors find when they pooled the data from the CSUS and the selective learning task from both experiments?

a)

The link between metacognition and selective social learning was inconsistent.

b)

The link between metacognition and selective social learning was robust.

c)

The link between theory of mind and selective social learning was not present.

d)

The link between explicit metacognition and selective social learning was strong.

17.

What is one of the promising lines of research mentioned in the text?

a)

Investigating the link between general intelligence and selective trust

b)

Developing a more advanced theory of mind in children

c)

Exploring the relationship between metacognition and general intelligence

d)

Understanding the role of explicit memory in selective social learning

18.

According to the text, what has been shown to contribute to social cognition independently of verbal intelligence?

a)

Metacognition

b)

Longitudinal studies

c)

Type I learning processes

d)

Theory of mind

19.

What type of cognitive strategies is mentioned as a switch from Type I to Type II in the development of selective learning?

a)

Domain-specific cognitive strategies

b)

Domain-general cognitive strategies

c)

Metacognitive strategies

d)

Behavioral strategies

20.

What is the main goal of the study mentioned in the text?

a)

To examine the link between intelligence and metacognition

b)

To examine the link between different types of metacognitive processes and selective social learning

c)

To measure prosocial skills in children

d)

To document a predictive relationship between implicit metacognition and selectivity