TY - JOUR
T1 - Self-assessment of everyday spatial memory and performance on memory tasks in old age
AU - Vecchi, Tomaso
AU - Albertin, Lorena
AU - Cornoldi, Cesare
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - Metacognitive assessment tests people's ability to monitor and predict their performance and recent findings highlighted its importance in memory rehabilitation programs for older people. In this study, young and older participants were presented with a self-assessment questionnaire on everyday spatial memory and with eight tasks evaluating various aspects of memory abilities. Results indicated an effect of age, favouring young adults, in the memory tasks only: Young and older participants self-rated similarly their everyday spatial memory; moreover, self-assessment scores and memory performance did not correlate. Differences in performance between young and older participants in cognitive tasks are in line with previous findings. Nevertheless, the everyday memory questionnaire does not seem to capture the nature of these differences. This result confirms that older people lack the metacognitive ability for giving a realistic evaluation of their memory abilities.
AB - Metacognitive assessment tests people's ability to monitor and predict their performance and recent findings highlighted its importance in memory rehabilitation programs for older people. In this study, young and older participants were presented with a self-assessment questionnaire on everyday spatial memory and with eight tasks evaluating various aspects of memory abilities. Results indicated an effect of age, favouring young adults, in the memory tasks only: Young and older participants self-rated similarly their everyday spatial memory; moreover, self-assessment scores and memory performance did not correlate. Differences in performance between young and older participants in cognitive tasks are in line with previous findings. Nevertheless, the everyday memory questionnaire does not seem to capture the nature of these differences. This result confirms that older people lack the metacognitive ability for giving a realistic evaluation of their memory abilities.
KW - Aging
KW - Metacognition
KW - Visuo-spatial memory
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U2 - 10.1300/J018v20n03_06
DO - 10.1300/J018v20n03_06
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0032861603
VL - 20
SP - 57
EP - 66
JO - Clinical Gerontologist
JF - Clinical Gerontologist
SN - 0731-7115
IS - 3
ER -