Metacognitive Training at Home: Does It Improve Older Adults’ Learning?
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Metacognitive training at home: does it improve older adults' learning?
BACKGROUND Previous research has described the success of an intervention aimed at improving older adults' ability to regulate their learning. This metacognitive approach involves teaching older adults to allocate their study time more efficiently by testing themselves and restudying items that are less well learned. OBJECTIVE Although this type of memory intervention has shown promise, train...
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عنوان ژورنال: Gerontology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1423-0003,0304-324X
DOI: 10.1159/000266030