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- Title
The Effect of Corrective Feedback in Basic Cognitive Tasks: A Study in Early Childhood.
- Authors
Moret-Tatay, Carmen; Vaquer-Cardona, Enrique; Bernabé-Valero, Gloria; Blasco-Magraner, José Salvador; Sáiz-Mauleón, Begoña; Jorques-Infante, María José; Iborra-Marmolejo, Isabel; Beneyto-Arrojo, María José
- Abstract
The aim of this study was to examine the effect of trial-by-trial corrective feedback in a go-no-go task for children. A sample of 40 preschool students, divided into 4- and 5-year-olds, participated in the study, as well as a group of 20 university students. All the groups performed the task in a counterbalanced design of blocks with and without corrective feedback. Reaction time and accuracy rate were measured as dependent variables. Moreover, reaction time was also analyzed through an ex-Gaussian fit. Children were slightly more accurate and slower under the presence of corrective feedback, suggesting a more conservative pattern. University students were faster, but corrective feedback did not reach the statistical level. Regarding reaction time components, a reduction of the distribution tails, depicted by the τ parameter, was found for both groups under the corrective feedback condition. This suggests that parameterization of reaction time can be considered as a strategy for a more detailed analysis to examine the effect of corrective feedback, even at early ages. In this way, corrective feedback depicted beneficial effects in the τ parameter at early ages, suggesting its use in basic cognitive tasks based on go-no-go but not for older groups.
- Subjects
TIME; COGNITION; REACTION time
- Publication
Children, 2022, Vol 9, Issue 2, p145
- ISSN
2227-9067
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/children9020145