Metamemories of memory researchers
- 1 May 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Memory & Cognition
- Vol. 18 (3) , 321-327
- https://doi.org/10.3758/bf03213885
Abstract
In the present study, a metamemory questionnaire was completed by three groups of individuals: memory research psychologists who attended a small international convention on everyday memory processes in the aged, academic psychologists with a limited knowledge of the memory literature, and nonpsychologist college professors. There was little evidence that memory psychologists reported using strategies to remember things that were different from the strategies of other academics. The most used and most recommended technique for remembering was to write things down, followed by general internal mnemonic systems such as organization and rehearsal. The least used and least recommended strategies for all three groups were formal mnemonic systems, such as the peg-word system or the method of loci.Keywords
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