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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Aging. 2009 Jun;24(2):462–475. doi: 10.1037/a0014417

Table 6.

Metacognitive memory measures by age, test phase, and word-pair type.

Judgments of Learning
Younger Adults Older Adults
Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 1 Phase 2
Word-pair Type M SD M SD M SD M SD
Intact 29.32 21.89 63.85 29.68 35.00 23.26 54.60 27.61
Rearranged 31.68 24.45 64.15 31.01 31.64 22.19 54.74 26.20
Confidence Judgments
Younger Adults Older Adults
Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 1 Phase 2
Word-pair Type M SD M SD M SD M SD
Intact 82.14 29.87 91.56 22.67 72.36 29.67 84.66 27.96
Rearranged 73.12 28.00 87.51 26.24 55.83 32.40 78.54 29.24