Recognizing a stimulus as previously encountered is a crucial everyday life skill and a
critical task motivating theoretical development in models of human memory. Although there …

Good self-control is highly valuable, but the processes that promote it are not fully
understood. This review emphasizes that self-control is “inherently metacognitive”(p. 204 …

If the mnemonic benefits of testing are to be widely realized in real-world learning
circumstances, people must appreciate the value of testing and choose to utilize testing …

The pretesting or prequestion effect refers to the counterintuitive finding that taking tests on
information that one has yet to learn, during which many erroneous responses typically …

Prior research has demonstrated that certain types of fluency can influence memory
predictions, with more fluent processing being associated with greater memory confidence …

Background/Study Context: Although explicit memory abilities decline during older
adulthood, there is evidence that suggests that metacognitive capabilities are relatively well …

Inspired by early proposals in philosophy, dominant accounts of language posit a central
role for mutual knowledge, either encoded directly in common ground, or approximated …

Although a variety of memory changes accompany old age, an important question is the
degree to which older adults are aware of these changes, and how older adults may or may …

Previous research has shown that word frequency affects judgments of learning (JOLs).
Specifically, people give higher JOLs for high-frequency (HF) words than for low-frequency …

Predicting what we will remember and forget is crucial for daily functioning. We were
interested in whether evaluating something as likely to be remembered or forgotten leads to …