Table 4.

Hits and false alarms on watching news and commercials in young adults (YA) and older adults (OA).

	YA (n = 21)	OA (n = 20)
	M ± SD	M ± SD	t	p	Cohen’s d
News
Hits1	28.38 ± 2.27	26.40 ± 3.07	2.359	0.023	0.73
FA2	12.33 ± 4.45	14.55 ± 6.22	−1.317	0.195	0.41
Subjective Difficulty3	3.48 ± 0.81	2.84 ± 0.90	2.343	0.024	0.75
Hits subjective4	43.71 ± 11.80	43.56 ± 13.47	0.035	0.972	0.01
FA subjective4	20.29 ± 8.09	19.17 ± 6.99	0.419	0.678	0.15
Commercials
Hits1	29.33 ± 2.82	26.10 ± 3.24	3.413	0.002	1.06
FA2	10.76 ± 4.88	11.85 ± 4.64	−0.731	0.469	0.23
Subjective Difficulty3	2.71 ± 0.72	3.26 ± 0.87	−2.183	0.035	0.69
Hits subjective4	48.50 ± 10.43	39.61 ± 18.05	1.748	0.091	0.60
FA subjective4	21.14 ± 8.38	18.17 ± 8.32	1.001	0.325	0.36

Legend: FA, false alarms; OA, older adults; YA, young adults. ¹Hits as a sum of correct answers to original and reversed statements (see Table 1), total of 36 items; ²Total of 36 items; ³Difficulty measured on a 5-Point Likert Scale; ⁴Participants’ subjective estimates of the number of correct responses (hits and correct rejections) and false alarms out of 72 items.