Training monitoring skills improves older adults' self-paced associative learning.
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We investigated a memory-enhancement program that involved teaching older adults to regulate study through self-testing. A regulation group was taught standard strategies along with self-testing techniques for identifying less well-learned items that could benefit from extra study. This group was compared with a strategy-control group, which was taught only strategies, and with a waiting-list control group. Greater training gains were shown for the regulation group (effect size, d = 0.72) than for the strategy-control (d = 0.28) and waiting-list control (d = 0.03) groups, indicating that training a monitoring skill--self-testing--can improve older adults' learning.
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Dunlosky et al. showed an incremental-training benefit for combining self-testing training with strategy training, but self-testing training did not increase transfer to a different memory task.
“Dunlosky et al. (2003) showed an incremental-training benefit for combining selftesting training with strategy training, but self-testing training did not increase the likelihood of transfer of self-testing to a different memory task.”
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- Authors
- Dunlosky, J., Kubat-Silman, A. K., & Hertzog, C.
- Affiliations
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro (US)
- Georgia Institute of Technology (US)
- Venue
- Psychology and Aging
- Published
- 2003
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 340-345
- ISSN
- 0882-7974 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1498
- OpenAlex
- W1965930605
- Cited by
- 167
- References
- 1
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- FWCI
- 4.40
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychology and Aging (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Aging (R37AG013148, R37-AG13148)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Functions and Memory
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology › Aging and Gerontology Research
- Keywords
- self-testing, metacognitive monitoring, older adults, memory enhancement, memory strategies
- MeSH terms
- Age Factors, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Aging, Association Learning, Female, Humans, Male, Memory, Middle Aged, Teaching
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