It is often necessary to selectively attend to important information, at the expense of less
important information, especially if you know you cannot remember large amounts of …

This chapter reviews age differences in metacognitive control, defined as behaviors based
on the monitoring of cognitive systems and states with the goal of improving the quality of …

The existing literature on study time allocation has primarily focused on how people regulate
their study time allocation across different items and conditions. However, these studies …

People base judgements about their own memory processes on probabilistic cues such as
the characteristics of study materials and study conditions. While research has largely …

Study strategies that learners utilize impact how much they learn. Practicing retrieval from
long-term memory (eg, practice tests or flashcards) is a particularly effective study strategy …

El aprendizaje de una segunda lengua (de ahora en adelante, L2), como es el caso del
inglés, se ha convertido en una necesidad de primer orden en el mundo actual. El carácter …

Practice tests provide large mnemonic benefits over restudying, but learners judge practice
tests as less effective than restudying. Consequently, learners infrequently utilize testing …

This study aimed to examine metacognitive abilities in individuals diagnosed with amnestic
mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) by using online metacognitive measures during cognitive …

Researchers have often determined how cues influence judgments of learning (JOLs; eg,
concrete words are assigned higher JOLs than are abstract words), and recently there has …

Students consistently report multitasking (eg, checking social media, texting, watching
Netflix) when studying on their own (eg, Junco & Cotton, Computers & Education, 59 [2], 505 …