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SUBMITTER: Metcalfe J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4679660 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Metcalfe Janet J Casal-Roscum Lindsey L Radin Arielle A Friedman David D
Psychological science 20151022 12
Although older adults rarely outperform young adults on learning tasks, in the study reported here they surpassed their younger counterparts not only by answering more semantic-memory general-information questions correctly, but also by better correcting their mistakes. While both young and older adults exhibited a hypercorrection effect, correcting their high-confidence errors more than their low-confidence errors, the effect was larger for young adults. Whereas older adults corrected high-conf ...[more]