Do older adults show less confidence in their monitoring of learning?
Although aging has a minimal effect on the accuracy of people's judgments of learning (JOLs) at predicting future memory performance, older adults may be less confident in these memory judgments--similar to the age declines often reported with memory self-efficacy. To evaluate this possibility, the authors had younger and older adults make JOLs for paired associates and rate their confidence in the accuracy of each JOL. Age-related declines in confidence in judgments were evident for immediate JOLs but not for delayed JOLs. Implications of these outcomes for theory of JOLs and explaining age-related differences in self-regulated study are discussed.
Serra
Michael J
MJ
Department of Psychology, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA. ms3439@columbia.edu
Dunlosky
John
J
Hertzog
Christopher
C
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment / Q000502:physiology*; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D012649:Self Concept; D014706:Verbal Learning / Q000502:physiology