Monitoramento metacognitivo de adultos em processo de alfabetização em tarefas de memória, processamento e inteligência geral

Self-regulation refers to thoughts, feelings and actions that are planned and cyclically adapted so as to make the individual reach their goals. Within the self-regulation is the metacognitive monitoring, the ability with which the individual follows and evaluates their own cognition. The present study aimed to investigate the metacognitive monitoring of illiterate adults using the metacognitive judgement, a measure of the metacognitive monitoring, in cognitive tasks that evaluate the general factor of intelligence, processing speed and short-term memory. The relation between the real performance and the estimated performance was also investigated, in which cognitive task the real performance related more to the estimated performance. The participants of the study included 34 students in a literacy program for adults, from both genders, and age between 40 and 60 years old. The instruments utilized were: Initial Interview, R-1 Test and subtests Digit Symbol-Coding, Symbol Search and Digit Span from the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale III (WAIS III), and Judgement Register from 0 to 100. Results indicated that the real performance of the subjects were lower when compared to subjects with a greater level of education. According to the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient, there was a significant correlation between the real performance and the estimated performance in the subtest Digit Symbol-Coding.