What you know can hurt you: Effects of age and prior knowledge on the accuracy of judgments of learning

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 919-931

  Toth, Jeffrey P ^a   Daniels, Karen A ^a   Solinger, Lisa A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Judgments of learning; Prior knowledge; Recognition memory; Recollection

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; MEMORY; RECALL; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF-ASSESSMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82955186262     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023379     Document Type: Article

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