All of the following are true of children's metamemories except that they

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Children are not always accurate in their assessments of their own memory abilities, as they tend to overestimate their memory capacity. They also tend to believe that they remember more than they actually can. However, they are generally in touch with their memory abilities, meaning that they have some awareness of what they can and cannot remember. They do not necessarily think that they never forget; in fact, some children may be quite aware of their memory lapses. Finally, children tend to have difficulty learning pairs of unrelated words compared to pairs of words that are semantically related, so they do not think that learning these types of pairs is as easy as learning pairs of opposites.

All of the Following Are True of Children's Metamemories Except