Metacognitive Awareness in autistic and non-autistic adults.
08 April 2024
This study measures autistic traits, and then metacognitive awareness via an experimental judgement of performance task, and metacognitions survey. It attempts to measure both explicit and implicit metacognition by adapting known tasks to have an additional metacognitive component.
It was inspired by studies that have shown many autistic adults either self identify or are not diagnosed in childhood by using cognitively taxing compensation or negatively impacting masking strategies.
Requirements
- Must be over 18 years of age
- Need access to laptop or tablet, won't work on most mobile devices
- Official diagnosis not required
- Seeking both neurotypical and neurodivergent participants
Keywords
Ethical approval
This has been approved by the University of Chichester ethics committee on January 4th 2024.
About the researcher
Hello, I'm currently completing my undergraduate degree in counselling psychology. I am very interested in metacognition, and compensatory strategies used by those with differing types of neurodevelopmental differences and how these findings may impact clinical practice.
