Prediction Accuracy and Medication Instructions: Will You Remember Tomorrow?

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Thirty older women (M = 73.7, SD = 7.4 years) and thirty younger women (M = 20.3, SD = 1.4 years) heard audiotaped medication instructions, judged the overall memorability of the instructions, and made ratings of the memorability of the specific aspects of the instructions. Participants were given a structured recall task after a 24-hour delay. Recall performance was measured, and the accuracy of ease-of-recall ratings was assessed in multiple ways. Younger adults were superior overall at recalling medication instructions, and at predicting absolute memorability. However, the two age groups did not differ when epistemic awareness was assessed using a relative prediction accuracy measure.

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