The Research Of Cognitive Control And Metacognitive Monitoring And Controlling Of Rural Poor Individuals

Currently,the impact of poverty on cognitive control is controversial.Scarcity theory believes that scarcity hinders cognitive control.However,some studies have found that poverty does not affect cognitive control.If poverty hinders cognitive function,does poverty affect metacognitive function? In view of the relationship between education and cognition,as well as the relationship between cognition and metacognition,this study selects the rural labor force who have established poor archives or newly updated to poverty alleviation cards as the relatively poor group,and the rural non-poor population as the control group.A numeric version of the traditional Stroop task and Random-dot Motion(RDM)task were used to study cognitive control and meta-cognitive monitoring and controlling,respectively.By introducing education variable,we explored whether poverty can independently affect cognitive control and metacognitive monitoring and controlling.The results of Stroop task showed that the main effect of poverty is not significant,and the main effects of education and task type are significant.The interaction between poverty and task type is not significant.So,there is no significant difference in task type between relatively poor group and non-poor group.The interaction among poverty,education and task type is significant.There is no significant difference in reaction time of lowly educated group of relatively poor group between consistent task and conflicting task.There is significant difference in reaction time of highly educated group of relatively poor group between consistent task and conflicting task.There is significant difference in reaction time of lowly educated group of non-poor group between consistent task and conflicting task.There is no significant difference in reaction time of highly educated group of non-poor group between consistent task and conflicting task.The G coefficient results of RDM task showed that the main effect of poverty is not significant.So,there is no significant difference in the accuracy of metacognitive monitoring between relatively poor group and the non-poor group.The main effect of education is critically significant,indicating that there may be difference in the accuracy of metacognitive monitoring between highly and lowly educated groups.The interaction between poverty and education is not significant.The reaction time results of RDM task showed that the main effects of poverty and education are not significant,and the main effect of difficulty is significant.The interaction between poverty and difficulty is not significant.So,there is no significant difference in difficulty between relatively poor group and non-poor group.The interaction among poverty,education and difficulty is not significant.The following conclusions can be drawn in terms of the results of this study:First,poverty,as an independent factor,has no significant effect on the cognitive control of relatively poor individuals in rural areas.Second,the combination of poverty and education factors hinder the cognitive control of relatively poor individuals in rural areas.Third,poverty,as an independent factor,has no obvious impact on metacognitive monitoring and metacognitive control relatively poor individuals in rural areas.Fourth,the combination of poverty and education factors has no obvious impact on metacognitive monitoring and metacognitive control of relatively poor individuals in rural areas.