Laboratory vs. naturalistic prospective memory task predictions: young adults are overconfident outside of the laboratory |
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| Authors: | Stéphanie Cauvin Christopher Moulin Céline Souchay Katharina Schnitzspahn Matthias Kliegel |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l’Education, University of Geneva, Genève, Switzerlandstephanie.cauvin@unige.ch;3. Laboratoire de Psychologie et Neurocognition, CNRS UMR 5105, Batiment Sciences de l’Homme et des Mathématiques, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France;4. School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK;5. Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l’Education, University of Geneva, Genève, Switzerland |
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| Abstract: | ABSTRACTThis study investigated whether individuals can predict their future prospective memory (PM) performance in a lab-based task and in a naturalistic task. Metacognitive awareness was assessed by asking participants to give judgments-of-learning (JOLs) on an item-level for the prospective (that something has to be done) and retrospective (what to do) PM component. In addition, to explore whether giving predictions influences PM performance, we compared a control group (without predictions) to a prediction group. Results revealed that giving predictions did not change PM performance. Moreover, participants were underconfident in their PM performance in the lab-based task, while they were overconfident in the naturalistic task. In addition, item-level JOLs indicated that they were inaccurate in predicting what items they will recall or not, but only for the prospective component of the PM task. As for the retrospective component, they were equally accurate in both task settings. This study suggests a dissociation of metacognitive awareness for PM according to both task setting and processing component. |
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| Keywords: | Prospective memory metacognition judgment-of-learning |
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