Metacognitive judgments and the performance of the elderly in memory tasks ; Juicios metacognitivos y el desempeño de los ancianos en tareas de memoria ; Julgamentos metacognitivos e o desempenho de idosos em tarefas de memória

The study aimed to investigate the metacognitive monitoring of elderly people by analyzing the relationships between their estimated performance and their actual performance in short-term memory tasks. Thirty elderly individuals who were not bedridden, with no reported signs of dementia or indicated through the Mini Mental State Examination, of both genders, aged between 65 and 90 years, in addition to a person close to each of them participated, totaling 60 participants. Contact with the sample was performed using the Snowball Sampling Aproach strategy. The materials presented to the elderly participants were the Mini Mental State Examination, the WAIS III Arithmetic, Digits and Sequence of Numbers and Letters subtests, the Metacognitive Judgments Registry. For participants who were figures close to each elderly person, the Questionnaire for Multiple Informers on the Performance of Elderly Persons in Memory Tasks was presented. The results of the WAIS III Arithmetic, Digits and Sequence of Numbers and Letters subtests were correlated to the judgments of the elderly and those close to them regarding the performance of the elderly in the subtests. Strong and significant correlations were found between judgments and actual performance for the three subtests and moderate and significant correlations were found between judgments of close people and the actual performance of the elderly in the subtests. The results indicated that the elderly, caregivers/ family members can properly judge performance in memory tasks. ; El estudio tuvo como objetivo investigar el seguimiento metacognitivo de las personas mayores mediante el análisis de las relaciones entre su rendimiento estimado y su rendimiento real en tareas de memoria a corto plazo. Participaron 30 ancianos que no se encontraban postrados en cama, sin signos reportados de demencia o indicados a través del Mini Examen del Estado Mental, de ambos sexos, con edades entre 65 y 90 años, además de una persona cercana a cada uno de ellos, totalizando 60 participantes. El ...