Committing memory errors with high confidence: Older adults do but children don't
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Committing memory errors with high confidence: older adults do but children don't.
We investigated lifespan differences of confidence calibration in episodic memory, particularly the susceptibility to high-confidence errors within samples of children, teenagers, younger adults, and older adults. Using an associative recognition memory paradigm, we drew a direct link between older adults' associative deficit and high-confidence errors. We predicted that only older adults would...
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عنوان ژورنال: Memory
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0965-8211,1464-0686
DOI: 10.1080/09658210802190596