The Effectiveness of updating metacognitive knowledge in the elderly: Evidence from metamnemonic judgments of word frequency

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 683-690

  Tullis, Jonathan G ^a   Benjamin, Aaron S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Judgments of learning; Knowledge updating; Metacognition; Monitoring; Word frequency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; MENTAL TASK; METACOGNITION; RECALL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY; AGE; AGING; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COGNITION; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; MIDDLE AGED; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84873025746     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0025838     Document Type: Article

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