Metacognitive experiences in prospective memory of younger and older adults: what is the role of mindlessness?
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Mar 24, 2021
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Blank-in-the-mind Metacognitive experiences Mindfulness Mind-wandering Prospective memory
Abstract
The present study aimed to examine metacognitive experiences in situations with respect to perspective memory (PM). The metacognitive experiences studied were blank in mind, “tip of the tongue”, mind wandering, and mind blanking. Young, middle-aged and elderly people of both sexes participated in this study. We also studied affect, cognitive failures and mindlessness as personality traits, which were also used as correlation factors of metacognitive experiences. The results of the current study showed that personality traits are related to metacognitive experience of blank in the mind, but not with performance in the PM task. Moreover, the results showed that there is a decline in task performance in older people, but no effect on metacognitive experiences. There were also high correlations between the metacognitive experiences of mind wandering, blank in mind and mind blanking, but there were no correlations between them and the “tip of the tongue” experience. Finally, regarding the correlation of affect with the task performance and metacognitive experiences, it was found that neutral affect correlates positively with mind wandering and blank in mind and negatively with mind blanking self-reports, but it does not necessarily correlate with lower task performance.
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Tanou, G., & Kostaridou-Efklides, A. (2021). Metacognitive experiences in prospective memory of younger and older adults: what is the role of mindlessness?. Psychology: The Journal of the Hellenic Psychological Society, 26(1), 278–291. https://doi.org/10.12681/psy_hps.26233
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