Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel.
Psychol Aging. 2011 Sep;26(3):631-5. doi: 10.1037/a0022852.
The present study examined whether there are age-related differences in the ability to accurately monitor forgetting. Young and older adults studied a mixed list of categorized words, and later recalled items when cued with each category. They then estimated the number of additional items that they did not recall-a form of monitoring one's forgetting. Older adults exhibited impaired memory performance compared with young adults, but also accurately estimated they forgot more information than young adults. Both age groups were fairly accurate in predicting forgetting in terms of resolution, indicating that aging does not impair the ability to monitor forgetting.
本研究考察了在准确监控遗忘的能力方面是否存在与年龄相关的差异。年轻和年长的成年人学习了一组混合的分类单词，然后在每个类别提示时回忆项目。他们随后估计了他们没有回忆起来的额外项目的数量——这是一种监控自己遗忘的形式。与年轻成年人相比，年长成年人的记忆表现受损，但他们也准确地估计自己比年轻成年人忘记了更多的信息。两个年龄组在预测遗忘方面的分辨率都相当准确，这表明衰老不会损害监控遗忘的能力。
