Year: 1985
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Since the beginning of the 1970s, increasing attention has been directed toward the development of children's awareness of their own memory.This phenomenon has been termed metamemory by John Flavell (1971), who broadly defined it as the individual's potentially verbalizable knowledge concerning any aspect of inforrnation storage and retrieval.Whereas the interest in metamemory development has been growing rapidly since then, documenting the construct's general usefulness in a wide area of different memory situations, there are at least two critical points that deserve special consideration: (1) the conceptualization of the construct and (2) its status as a predictor of actual memory behavior.While the latter is the topic of the present chapter and is discussed in more detail, we first concentrate on some problems related to the definition of metamemory.The first taxonomy of classes of memory knowledge was provided in the metamemoryinterview study by Kreutzer, Leonard, and Flavell (1975).
Author: Wolfgang Schneider
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3140255043