Is There a G Factor for Metacognition? Correlations in Retrospective Metacognitive Sensitivity Across Tasks
Is There a G Factor for Metacognition? Correlations in Retrospective Metacognitive Sensitivity Across Tasks
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元认知是否存在G因子？回溯性元认知敏感性在不同任务中的相关性
DOI：
10.1037/xge0000746
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发表时间：
2020-09-01
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
Moulin, Chris J. A.
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作者：
Mazancieux, Audrey;Fleming, Stephen M.;Moulin, Chris J. A.
元认知是跨领域共享的通用资源吗？以前的研究已经记录了跨任务判断的一致偏见。相反。存在关于区分正确和不正确答案的能力（元认知敏感性）的域通用性或域特异性的争论，因为大多数先前的工作已经证明了跨域的非显著相关性。然而，这种无效的发现可能是由于低统计功率和任务结构或性能的差异，从而掩盖了元认知中潜在的域一般性。我们在大样本（N = 181）中检查了置信水平和灵敏度的跨域相关性。参与者进行了4个2-选择强迫选择任务（情景记忆，语义记忆，执行功能和视觉感知）与审判的信心判断。我们发现，在不同的任务之间的平均信心水平显着的相关性。通过应用分层贝叶斯模型估计跨任务协方差。我们发现元认知效率（元-d ′/d ′）的6个任务间相关性中有5个是显著的，即使对于一阶表现不相关的任务对也是如此。这表明，至少有一些组件的元认知效率在回顾性信心域一般。
Is metacognition a general resource shared across domains? Previous research has documented consistent biases in judgments across tasks. In contrast. there is debate regarding the domain generality or the domain specificity of the ability to discriminate between correct and incorrect answers (metacognitive sensitivity) because most previous work has documented nonsignificant correlations across domains. However, such null findings may be due to low statistical power and differences in task structure or performance, thereby masking a latent domain generality in metacognition. We examined across-domain correlations in confidence level and sensitivity in a large sample (N = 181). Participants performed 4 2-alternative forced-choice tasks (episodic memory, semantic memory, executive function, and visual perception) with trial-by-trial confidence judgments. We found significant correlations in average confidence level across tasks. By applying a hierarchical Bayesian model to estimate cross-task covariance. we found five out 6 cross-task correlations in metacognitive efficiency (meta-d'/d') were significant, even for pairs of tasks in which first-order performance was not correlated. This suggests that at least some components of metacognitive efficiency in retrospective confidence are domain general.