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An investigation of people's metamemories for naturally occurring events
Author(s) -
Shlechter Theodore M.,
Herrmann Douglas J.,
Toglia Michael P.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
applied cognitive psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.719
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1099-0720
pISSN - 0888-4080
DOI - 10.1002/acp.2350040306
Subject(s) - metamemory , psychology , salience (neuroscience) , forgetting , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , metacognition , cognition , neuroscience
Three studies investigated the role of event salience in the validity of metamemory reports for naturally occurring events. Two studies investigated metamemory for daily forgetting behaviours as recorded on memory diaries for either 10 days (Study 1) or a month (Study 2). A third study examined metamemory for remembering recent events (consisting of the first day of class, the most recent weekend, and the first experimental session). The results indicated that metamemory validity was higher for the more salient memory events, e. g. rote memory failures and memory of the first day of class.