Age Differences in Memory Retrieval Shift: Governed by Feeling-of-Knowing?

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 647-660

  Hertzog, Christopher ^a   Touron, Dayna R ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Feeling of knowing; Memory retrieval; Metacognition; Skill acquisition; Strategy choice

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; MEMORY; RECOGNITION; STANDARD; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REPETITION PRIMING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052903857     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021875     Document Type: Article

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