The role of declarative and procedural metamemory in event-based prospective memory in school-aged children.
Prospective memory (PM) develops considerably during the primary school years (7 or 8 years of age). Developmental changes have been mainly related to executive functions, although it has been recently suggested that PM would also potentially benefit from metamemory (MM). To date, only procedural MM...
| Published in: | Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Vol. 166; pp. 17 - 34 |
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Academic Press Inc.
Feb2018
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=127984258&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 127984258 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00220965 JEX jtl: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology issn: 00220965 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Feb2018 vid: 166 pid: 735 pub: Academic Press Inc. artinfo: ui: 127984258 10.1016/j.jecp.2017.08.002 ppf: 17 ppct: 17 formats: tig: atl: The role of declarative and procedural metamemory in event-based prospective memory in school-aged children. aug: au: Cottini, Milvia Basso, Demis Palladino, Paola affil: Department of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, University of Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy Faculty of Education, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, 39100 Bolzano-Bozen, Italy Centro di Neuroscienze Cognitive Applicate, 00174 Rome, Italy su: School children Child development Explicit memory Prospective memory Metacognition sug: subj: School children Child development Explicit memory Prospective memory Metacognition keyword: Declarative metamemory Performance predictions Procedural metamemory School-aged children Strategic monitoring Declarative metamemory Performance predictions Procedural metamemory School-aged children Strategic monitoring ab: Prospective memory (PM) develops considerably during the primary school years (7 or 8 years of age). Developmental changes have been mainly related to executive functions, although it has been recently suggested that PM would also potentially benefit from metamemory (MM). To date, only procedural MM, operationalized as performance predictions, has been investigated in relation to PM, whereas declarative MM has remained unexplored. Adults’ performance has been shown to improve with predictions, but only in a resource-demanding (i.e., categorical) PM task rather than a more automatic (i.e., specific) one. The aim of the current investigation was to study whether PM performance of 7-year-old children ( N = 59) would benefit from performance predictions. Thus, half of the children predicted their performance and half of them received standard instructions for two PM tasks: one including categorical PM targets and one including specific ones. To investigate the processes underlying the retrieval of PM targets and the effect of predictions, we obtained measures for declarative MM, inhibitory control, and working memory (WM). Results revealed that children benefitted from performance predictions in the categorical PM task but not in the specific one. This advantage caused slower ongoing task response times, suggesting that strategic monitoring processes were enhanced. Moreover, PM performance was related to WM capacity and declarative MM. However, declarative MM mainly predicted PM advantage in the prediction group, showing that children with high MM knowledge benefitted especially from performance predictions. These findings are the first showing the important relation among procedural MM, declarative MM, and PM in school-aged children. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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