Tip-of-the-Tongue States and Aging
Contrasting Psycholinguistic and Metacognitive Perspectives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10123545 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bennett L Schwartz (0000-0002-1702-9550, Florida International University, corresponding author), Leslie D Frazier (0000-0003-3117-4591, Florida International University) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 132 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 377-391 |
| Publication date | 2005-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of General Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1309 • E-ISSN: 1940-0888 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3200/genp.132.4.377-391 |
| OpenAlex | W2077704636 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 50 |
A tip-of-the-tongue state (TOT) refers to the experience of feeling certain that one knows a word, but being unable to retrieve it. A consistent finding in the literature is that TOTs are more frequent in older adults than in younger adults. We describe 2 hypotheses that account for this finding. The decrement view explains the increase in TOTs with age as a function of deteriorating connections between semantic and lexical nodes. The incremental-knowledge view accounts for the effect in terms of older adults' generally greater vocabulary. We integrated both views into a metacognitive account of TOTs, which differs from the psycholinguistic approach to TOTs and aging. Psycholinguistic approaches focus on the TOT as retrieval failure, whereas metacognitive accounts focus on the TOT as a phenomenological experience. We emphasize the role of the metacognitive approach for moving aging research beyond the study of deficits and decline and toward models of successful aging
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Feeling · Focus (optics · Linguistics · Metacognition · Metamemory · Tip of the tongue · Tongue · Vocabulary · Face Recognition and Perception · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Neuroscience · Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology
Metacognition
Successful Aging
Speaking
The “tip of the tongue” phenomenon
How do we know that we know? The accessibility model of the feeling of knowing.
Monitoring one's own knowledge during study
The processing-speed theory of adult age differences in cognition.
Availability versus accessibility of information in memory for words
On the tip of the tongue
Metamemory
A review of the tip-of-the-tongue experience
Older and Younger Adults Use a Functionally Identical Algorithm To Select Items for Restudy During Multitrial Learning
Speed mediation of adult age differences in cognition
Ageing and the retrieval of specialized and general knowledge
Consciousness and metacognition
The moderator–mediator variable distinction in social psychological research
The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research
Age, blocking and the tip of the tongue state
What causes a tip-of-the-tongue state? Evidence for lexical neighbourhood effects in speech production
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
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| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |