Assessing metacognitive skills in waking and sleep: A psychometric analysis of the Metacognitive, Affective, Cognitive Experience (MACE) questionnaire

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 340-352

  Kahan, Tracey L ^a   Sullivan, Kieran T ^a  

^a SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Cross state cognition; Dreaming; High order cognition; Metacognition; Reflective awareness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; AWARENESS; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONSCIOUSNESS; DREAMING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MALE; MEMORY; METACOGNITION; METACOGNITIVE, AFFECTIVE, COGNITIVE EXPERIENCE QUESTIONNAIRE; NEUROIMAGING; PSYCHOLOGIST; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SLEEP; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VALIDITY; WAKEFULNESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AWARENESS; CALIFORNIA; CONSCIOUSNESS; DREAMS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84857506946     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2011.11.005     Document Type: Article

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