Older adults' use of metacognitive knowledge in source monitoring: Spared monitoring but impaired control.
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Dayna R. Touron, Professor of Psychology and Associate Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: While episodic memory declines with age, metacognitive monitoring is spared. The current study explored whether older adults can use their preserved metacognitive knowledge to make source guesses in the absence of source memory. Through repetition, words from two sources (italic vs. bold text type) differed in memorability. There were no age differences in monitoring this difference despite an age difference in memory. Older adults used their metacognitive knowledge to make source guesses but showed a deficit in varying their source guessing based on word recognition. Therefore, older adults may not fully benefit from metacognitive knowledge about sources in source monitoring.
Older adults' use of metacognitive knowledge in source monitoring: Spared monitoring but impaired control.
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Psychology and Aging, 26(1),143-149. [2011]
- Language: English
- Date: 2011
- Keywords
- age differences, aging, metacognition, psychology, source monitoring, episodic memory