Aging, metamemory, and high-confidence errors: A misrecollection account

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 122-133

  Dodson, Chad S ^a   Bawa, Sameer ^a   Krueger, Lacy E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Calibration; Cued recall tests; Metamemory; Recollection; Source identification; Source memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; RECALL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33947690284     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.22.1.122     Document Type: Article

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