The effect of metacognitive training on confidence and strategic reminder setting.

ABSTRACT: Individuals often choose between remembering information using their own memory ability versus using external resources to reduce cognitive demand (i.e. 'cognitive offloading'). For example, to remember a future appointment an individual could choose to set a smartphone reminder or depend on their unaided memory ability. Previous studies investigating strategic reminder setting found that participants set more reminders than would be optimal, and this bias towards reminder-setting was predicted by metacognitive underconfidence in unaided memory ability. Due to the link between underconfidence in memory ability and excessive reminder setting, the aim of the current study was to investigate whether metacognitive training is an effective intervention to a) improve metacognitive judgment accur

SUBMITTER: Engeler NC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7584199 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature