Age-related differences in strategy knowledge updating: Blocked testing produces greater improvements in metacognitive accuracy for younger than older adults

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 601-626

  Price, Jodi ^a   Hertzog, Christopher ^a   Dunlosky, John ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Imagery; Knowledge; Metacognition; Strategy

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; KNOWLEDGE; KNOWLEDGE UPDATING; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECALL; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNITED STATES; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; EIDETIC IMAGERY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; JUDGMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 49749125236     PISSN: 13825585     EISSN: 17444128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13825580801956225     Document Type: Article

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