Are we aware of our ability to forget? Metacognitive predictions of directed forgetting

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1448-1456

  Friedman, Michael C ^a   Castel, Alan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Directed forgetting; Forgetting; Judgments of learning; Memory; Metamemory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RECALL;

ADULT; COGNITION; CUES; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LEARNING; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80155148417     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-011-0115-y     Document Type: Article

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