Does aging influence people's metacomprehension? Effects of processing ease on judgments of text learning

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 390-400

  Dunlosky, John ^a   Baker, Julie M C ^a   Rawson, Katherine A ^a   Hertzog, Christopher ^b  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ease of processing; Fluency; Judgments; Metacomprehension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; PREDICTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; COMPREHENSION; CUES; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LEARNING; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REACTION TIME; READING;

EID: 33747042448     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.21.2.390     Document Type: Article

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