Aging and Monitoring Associative Learning: Is Monitoring Accuracy Spared or Impaired?

Mixed lists of associatively related and unrelated paired associates were used to study monitoring of associative learning. Older and younger adults produced above-chance levels of relative accuracy, as measured by intraindividual correlations (γ) of judgments of learning (JOLs) with item recall. JO...

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Published in:Psychology and aging 2002-06, Vol.17 (2), p.209-225
Main Authors: Hertzog, Christopher, Kidder, Daniel P, Powell-Moman, Amy, Dunlosky, John
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accuracy
Adult
Adult. Elderly
Age Differences
Aged
Aging
Aging - psychology
Association Learning
Associative learning
Associative Processes
Biological and medical sciences
Cognition & reasoning
Developmental psychology
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Humans
Learning
Male
Mental Recall
Monitoring
Older people
Paired Associate Learning
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Reproducibility of Results
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Summary:Mixed lists of associatively related and unrelated paired associates were used to study monitoring of associative learning. Older and younger adults produced above-chance levels of relative accuracy, as measured by intraindividual correlations (γ) of judgments of learning (JOLs) with item recall. JOLs were strongly influenced by relatedness, and this effect was greater for older adults. Relative accuracy was higher for unrelated than for related pairs. Correlations of JOLs with item recall for a randomly yoked learner indicated that access to one's own encoding experiences increased relative accuracy. Both age groups manifested a contrast effect (lower JOLs for unrelated items when mixed with related items). Aging appears to spare monitoring of encoding, even though it adversely affects associative learning.
ISSN:0882-7974
1939-1498
DOI:10.1037/0882-7974.17.2.209