How Well Do You Think You Summarize? Metacomprehension Accuracy in Younger and Older Adults
| Autor: | Erika K. Fulton |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Self-Assessment Social Psychology media_common.quotation_subject Metacomprehension Concept Formation Metacognition 050109 social psychology 050105 experimental psychology Developmental psychology Judgment Young Adult Optimism Reading (process) Outcome Assessment Health Care Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Mental Competency media_common Aged Language Working memory 05 social sciences Moderation Test (assessment) Comprehension Clinical Psychology THE JOURNAL OF GERONTOLOGY: Psychological Sciences Reading Cognitive Aging Female Geriatrics and Gerontology Psychology Gerontology |
| Zdroj: | J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci |
| ISSN: | 1758-5368 |
| Popis: | Objectives Metacomprehension monitoring accuracy in older age may be underestimated because of how it has been measured. Metacomprehension in the present study was uniquely measured by comparing summary quality to summary quality judgments. The effect of age on this accuracy was assessed and results were compared to those measured with the typical approach. The moderation of age effects by reading goal was also assessed but was an exploratory objective.1 Method Younger adults (141) and older adults (138) read and orally summarized six expository texts. Participants were randomly assigned to a reading goal condition, with half of each age group summarizing for a professor/boss and half summarizing for an acquaintance. Participants made judgments about the quality of their summaries before and after summarizing, took a multiple-choice test of their comprehension, and made judgments about the accuracy of their answers. Results Age deficits in metacomprehension were generally smaller when measured with the novel approach and age differences were generally larger for the professor/boss condition than for the acquaintance condition. Discussion The novel approach to measuring metacomprehension monitoring accuracy provides more optimism for aging than typical approaches, discussed in relation to age-related changes in language processing preferences. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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