dc.contributor.author | Kvavilashvili, Lia | |
dc.contributor.author | Ford, R.M. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-08-18T13:30:40Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-08-18T13:30:40Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-11-01 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Kvavilashvili , L & Ford , R M 2014 , ' Metamemory prediction accuracy for simple prospective and retrospective memory tasks in 5-year-old children ' , Journal of Experimental Child Psychology , vol. 127 , pp. 65-81 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2014.01.014 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1096-0457 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2299/14386 | |
dc.description | This document is the accepted manuscript version of the following article: Lia Kvavilashvili and Ruth M. Ford, ‘Metamemory prediction accuracy for simple prospective and retrospective memory tasks in 5-year-old children’, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol 127, November 2014, pp. 65-81, first published online 31 March 2014. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. The version of record is available online at doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2014.01.014 © 2014. Elsevier. All rights reserved. | |
dc.description.abstract | It is well documented that young children greatly overestimate their performance on tests of retrospective memory (RM), but the current investigation is the first to examine children’s prediction accuracy for prospective memory (PM). Three studies were conducted, each testing a different group of 5-year-olds. In Study 1 (N = 46), participants were asked to predict their success in a simple event-based PM task (remembering to convey a message to a toy mole if they encountered a particular picture during a picture-naming activity). Before naming the pictures, children listened to either a reminder story or a neutral story. Results showed that children were highly accurate in their PM predictions (78% accuracy) and that the reminder story appeared to benefit PM only in children who predicted they would remember the PM response. In Study 2 (N = 80), children showed high PM prediction accuracy (69%) regardless of whether the cue was specific or general and despite typical overoptimism regarding their performance on a 10-item RM task using item-by-item prediction. Study 3 (N = 35) showed that children were prone to overestimate RM even when asked about their ability to recall a single item—the mole’s unusual name. In light of these findings, we consider possible reasons for children’s impressive PM prediction accuracy, including the potential involvement of future thinking in performance predictions and PM | en |
dc.format.extent | 591405 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Experimental Child Psychology | |
dc.title | Metamemory prediction accuracy for simple prospective and retrospective memory tasks in 5-year-old children | en |
dc.contributor.institution | School of Life and Medical Sciences | |
dc.contributor.institution | Department of Psychology | |
dc.contributor.institution | Health & Human Sciences Research Institute | |
dc.contributor.institution | Psychology | |
dc.contributor.institution | Learning, Memory and Thinking | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | |
dc.date.embargoedUntil | 2016-03-31 | |
rioxxterms.versionofrecord | 10.1016/j.jecp.2014.01.014 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | |
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