Table 3.
Experiment 2. Descriptive statistics of Meta-Memory Accuracy by Age Group and Set Size
Age Group | Set Size | k | Meta-WM | Meta accuracy (absolute) |
Hit Rate | False Alarms |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st – 2nd Grade | 3 | 1.6 (0.57) | 2.9 (0.24) | 1.3 (0.59) | .85 (0.11) | .38 (0.14) |
6 | 1.7 (1.0) | 4.5 (1.50) | 2.8 (1.9) | .65 (0.14) | .48 (0.15) | |
9 | 1.3 (1.4) | 5.9 (2.58) | 4.7 (2.96) | .61 (0.17) | .54 (0.16) | |
3rd – 4th Grade | 3 | 2.2 (0.48) | 3.0 (0.096) | 0.76 (0.50) | .88 (0.083) | .23 (0.14) |
6 | 2.1 (1.5) | 4.7 (1.34) | 2.6 (1.66) | .71 (0.14) | .47 (0.18) | |
9 | 2.4 (1.8) | 5.8 (2.86) | 3.8 (2.82) | .62 (0.14) | .45 (0.15) | |
5th – 7th Grade | 3 | 2.5 (0.53) | 2.9 (0.19) | 0.47 (0.38) | .87 (0.14) | .14 (0.12) |
6 | 2.3 (1.3) | 4.2 (1.27) | 2.2 (1.56) | .73 (0.19) | .43 (0.16) | |
9 | 2.7 (1.5) | 4.3 (1.84) | 1.9 (2.31) | .65 (0.23) | .45 (0.14) | |
College Students | 3 | 2.8 (0.22) | 3.0 (0.039) | 0.20 (0.22) | .96 (0.051) | .065 (0.064) |
6 | 3.4 (1.1) | 4.6 (1.10) | 1.5 (1.24) | .82 (0.12) | .35 (0.14) | |
9 | 3.6 (2.0) | 5.1 (2.10) | 2.01 (1.65) | .72 (0.14) | .43 (0.17) |
Note. Values represent mean values and in parenthesis, standard deviations.