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Data are reviewed from three studies in which individuals rated, at time of study, the likelihood that they would later recall each to-be-remembered item. In all conditions, individuals show a very substantial ability to predict those items that they later succeed in recalling. Although performance on this variety of metamemory task was similar in several respects for free-recall and cued-recall tasks, one consistent difference emerged. In the cued, or paired-associate, task, individual differences in recall performance were related to individual differences in the use of the predictive rating scale; those who recalled more items used higher values on the rating scale. For free recall, no such relationship was observed.
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Lovelace, E.A. Metamemory: Monitoring future recallability in free and cued recall. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 22, 497–500 (1984). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03333889
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