Help-Seeking During Science Learning

The session begins with a guardian consent form followed by a brief demographics form and assent form. Once the forms have been completed, participants complete the encoding phase during which they are presented with 36 trials consisting of a picture of an animal, a category icon (i.e., move, eat, eyes) and the animal fact. Following the animal fact participants were asked to indicate prior knowledge of the fact in order to maintain engagement. Next, participants completed the help-seeking phase, which was termed as a practice test to participants. Participants were presented with a picture of an animal and asked to recall the fact they learned about the animal. At the beginning of each trial participants were asked to give a confidence judgment (CJ) using a 3-point confidence scale. Following the ratings, the stimuli were randomly assigned to one of three different conditions including help available (20 trials), no help available (8 trials), and restudy (8 trials) conditions. During the help available condition participants had the option of receiving help in the form of a hint, the answer, or provide a response without asking for help. During the no help condition participants were asked what they learned without any available help. During the restudy condition, participants saw and heard the fact they learned without being asked to respond.

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This session begins with a guardian consent form followed by a brief demographics form and a children's assent form. Participants then completed the final memory test. Participants were randomly presented images of each studied animal. Participants were asked how confident they were that they remember the fact using a 3-point confidence scale. Then, in the absence of help, children were asked to recall the fact they had learned about the animal.

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