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Universal Journal of Psychology(CEASE PUBLICATION) Vol. 2(8), pp. 260 - 264
DOI: 10.13189/ujp.2014.020804
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Age and Metamemory: Do Older Adults Perform Poorly?
Md. Zayeed Bin Alam *, Asheek Mohammad Shimul
Dhaka University Memory Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
ABSTRACT
The purpose of the present study was to determine whether there is any age effect on metamemory judgments i.e. Judgment-of-learning (JOL) and Feeling-of-knowing (FOK). Based on previous findings it was hypothesized that age would only affect FOK resolution not JOL. Twenty younger adults and twenty older adults participated in this study under within subject design. The order of the FOK and JOL tasks were counterbalanced across participants. For both tasks, the first phase was the study phase and they studied twenty different Bangla word pairs in each task. The second phase was the judgment phase for JOL task and recall phase for the FOK task. The third phase was just opposite; recall for JOL and judgment for FOK. The last phase was recognition for both tasks. Results indicate no significant age effect on both recall performance [t(38) = 0.728, p> 0.05 for JOL task, t(38) = 1.195, p>0.05 for FOK task] and recognition performance [t(38) =0.366, p>0.05 for JOL task, t(38) = -0.178, p>0.05 for FOK task]. It also indicates no significant age effects on judgment accuracy [F(1,38) = 0.156, p>0 .05]. The results have been discussed in the light of recent developments in metamemory research.
KEYWORDS
Metamemory, Aging, Feeling-of-Knowing, Judgment-of-Learning
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[1] Md. Zayeed Bin Alam , Asheek Mohammad Shimul , "Age and Metamemory: Do Older Adults Perform Poorly?," Universal Journal of Psychology(CEASE PUBLICATION), Vol. 2, No. 8, pp. 260 - 264, 2014. DOI: 10.13189/ujp.2014.020804.
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Md. Zayeed Bin Alam , Asheek Mohammad Shimul (2014). Age and Metamemory: Do Older Adults Perform Poorly?. Universal Journal of Psychology(CEASE PUBLICATION), 2(8), 260 - 264. DOI: 10.13189/ujp.2014.020804.