Do subjective measures of attention and memory predict actual performance? Metacognition in older couples

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 440-450

  Volz Sidiropoulou, Eftychia ^a   Gauggel, Siegfried ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Healthy elderly; Memory; Metacognition; Metacognitive accuracy

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT QUESTIONNAIRE; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; EPISODIC MEMORY; EVERYDAY MEMORY QUESTIONNAIRE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; METACOGNITION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REACTION TIME; VERBAL MEMORY; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AFFECT; AGING; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; LEARNING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF EVALUATION; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPOUSE; STATISTICS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AFFECT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF REPORT; SELF-ASSESSMENT; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPOUSES; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 84867434809     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0025384     Document Type: Article

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