title: Age-related equivalence and deficit in knowledge updating of cue effectiveness.
abstract: Knowledge updating involves learning about cue effectiveness based on task experience. Priorresearch has yielded inconsistent conclusions regarding age and knowledge updating. To resolve this inconsistency, the authors analyzed the effects of aging within a single paradigm. Participants studied cue-target associates during 2 study-test trials. Cues included rhyme cues and highly effective category cues. On each study-test trial, different items were presented, and participants predicted recall performance, received a cued recall test, and postdicted performance. Knowledge updating was operationalized as an improvement in the accuracy of predictive judgments across trials. An age deficit was evident in improvements in absolute accuracy, whereas age equivalence was evident in relative accuracy. Evidence suggested that deficient inferential processes contributed to the age deficit in knowledge updating.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 27402-6170, USA.
authors.forename: Greg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Matvey
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dunlosky
authors.forename: Raymond J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Shaw
authors.forename: Colleen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Parks
authors.forename: Christopher
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hertzog
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis