This paper reports the outcomes of a large study in which the metacognitive processes which take place during test-taking were assessed. The focus is primarily on confidence judgements that people assign to their answers to cognitive test items. There are pronounced individual differences in these judgments defining a Self-confidence factor, the exact nature of which remains unclear due to a la...

Background and Objective: Different personality aspects including identity styles, self-efficacy, and cognitive abilities can play a certain role in successful learning result in high educational success. We assessed the value of identity styles, self-efficacy and metacognition beliefs for predicting the level of educational success in female high-school students. Methods: In a cross-s...

This article reviews the history, measures and principal findings of the Seattle Longitudinal Study. This study began in 1956 focusing upon age differences and age changes in cognitive abilities. Its sampling frame is a large HMO in the Pacific Northwest. The study has been expanded to investigate various influences on cognitive aging including, cognitive styles, personality traits, life styles...

Studies have shown that cognitive styles have some impacts on user performance in various types of systems. The current study focused on the effects of cognitive styles on users’ information-seeking task performance between an information visualization system and a generic information system. Thirty-two graduate students participated in a controlled laboratory experiment. Each of them completed...

BACKGROUND The current study aimed to investigate the relationship between cognitive distortions and attribution styles among divorce applicant couples and its impact on sexual satisfaction. MATERIALS AND METHODS It was a cross-sectional study and its statistical samples were 55 divorce applicant couples (110 individuals) referred to Urmia courts, Urmia, Iran, from 2012 to 2013. The required ...