Two studies investigated elderly (mean age = 76.2, 69.8 years) and young (mean age = 23.8 years) adults’ self‐perceptions and beliefs regarding the effects of aging on memory. In the first experiment, the Metamemory in Adulthood Questionnaire (MIA; Dixon & Hultsch, 1983) was used to measure elderly subjects’ awareness of memory processes before and after a 2‐day, interactive memory workshop. The second experiment measured the effectiveness of a similar workshop by comparing the pre‐ and postworkshop scores of elderly and young workshop participants and nonparticipants on the MIA and a set of fact/fiction statements. The Nelson‐Denny Vocabulary Test (ND; Nelson & Denny, 1973) and California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT; Delis, Kramer, Kaplan, & Ober, 1987) measured verbal ability, ensuring that differences in pre‐ and postworkshop scores resulted from the workshop manipulation. In both studies, elderly workshop participants improved on the locus subscale of the MIA (i.e., reattribution of control of memory p...