Evidence for Age-Equivalent and Task-Dissociative Metacognition in the Memory Domain.

ABSTRACT: Research suggests that metacognitive monitoring ability does not decline with age. For example, judgments-of-learning (JOL) accuracy is roughly equivalent between younger and older adults. But few studies have asked whether younger and older adults' metacognitive ability varies across different types of memory processes (e.g., for items vs. pairs). The current study tested the relationship between memory and post-decision confidence ratings at the trial level on item (individual words) and associative (word pairs) memory recognition tests. As predicted, younger and older adults had similar metacognitive efficiency, when using meta-d'/d', a measure derived from Signal Detection Theory, despite a significant age effect favoring younger adults on memory performance. This result

SUBMITTER: Zakrzewski AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7901934 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature