Wacker, Sophie (2023). Towards a Comprehensive Framework of Monitoring in Young Children: Shedding Light on the Processes Underlying Monitoring. (Thesis). Universität Bern, Bern
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Abstract
Metacognitive monitoring is a fundamental milestone in a child’s developmental trajectory. Previous theoretical models of monitoring have predominantly been informed by classical methods such as behavioral measures and observations. Furthermore, to understand monitoring within a broader research context, too little attention has been paid to expand the definition of monitoring. Thus, the main goal of the present research is to propose a comprehensive framework for monitoring and the underlying processes. The foundation of the proposed framework emerges from the studies used in this umbrella paper and these findings are integrated with a theoretical background of processes underlying monitoring. While supporting children in their inhibition skills (study I) resulted in more accurate monitoring, allowing children to differentiate between answer alternatives (study II) negatively affected children’s monitoring accuracy. Results from study I indicate that inhibition might be an important underlying process of monitoring. The results from study II suggest that there might be additional processes influencing monitoring such as the high interrelation with memory. Within this dissertation combining the results from our studies expanding them with additional neuronal background of processes underlying monitoring contributes to a new framework of monitoring. Within this framework I propose the dynamic interplay of monitoring with memory and inhibition. This proposed framework might be a first step to better understand why young children often struggle to accurately monitor. More research is needed to shedding light on these dynamic relations between underlying processes and monitoring.
| Item Type: | Thesis |
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| Dissertation Type: | Cumulative |
| Date of Defense: | 24 November 2023 |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 370 Education |
| Institute / Center: | 07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology |
| Depositing User: | Hammer Igor |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Dec 2024 13:11 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Dec 2024 15:47 |
| URI: | https://boristheses.unibe.ch/id/eprint/5663 |
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