Children Estimating Their Memory Skills

Children estimating their memory skills is an example of metamemory, the ability to think about one’s own memory. Metamemory is one part of metacognition, which includes the broader skills people use to think about their own knowledge and thinking.

Human memory is fallible, and people often do no...

Conceptualizing one?s own memory, referred to as metamemory, is often difficult for young children to do.

Although young children understand that people have thoughts and a limited amount of knowledge, they often have trouble acknowledging the limits of their own memory abilities, often overestimating their capabilities.

Importantly,...