ATTENTIONAL CAPTURE AND METAATTENTIONAL JUDGMENT: A STUDY OF YOUNG CHILDREN, PARENTS, AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

• OH-UCHI Akiko

  Tokiwa Junior College

• KAWAHARA Jun-ichiro

  National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

• SUGANO Likio

  Takachiho University

抄録

Recent studies on metaattention have demonstrated a tendency toward overestimating one’s performance on attentionally demanding tasks. However, the extent to which such metacognitive failures apply to all attentional phenomena remains unclear. The present study examined whether participants could anticipate attentional capture elicited by a task-irrelevant distractor during visual search. We measured attentional capture among university students and preschoolers and examined metaattentional judgments made by university students and the preschoolers’ parents. The students and preschoolers exhibited attentional capture. The university group underestimated their attentional performance, and the parents predicted that they would be less affected by capture than would their children. These results indicate that the tendency toward overestimating metaattentional capabilities is not a ubiquitous but rather represents a domain-specific effect. We propose that veridical metaattentional judgements can be made when the attentional phenomena in question relate to deficits that participants are able to notice in actual life.<br>

収録刊行物

• ＰＳＹＣＨＯＬＯＧＩＡ

  ＰＳＹＣＨＯＬＯＧＩＡ 53 (2), 114-124, 2010

  プシコロギア会

キーワード

• attentional capture and metaattention

詳細情報

• CRID: 1390001205112153472
• NII論文ID: 130000308274
• DOI: 10.2117/psysoc.2010.114
• ISSN: 13475916
• ISSN: 00332852
• Web Site: http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/psysoc/53/2/53_2_114/_pdf
• 本文言語コード: en
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