comparison of prospective memory and metamemory between normal and ocd individuals in non clinical population

Subject Areas : روان درمانگری

Mojde Poordana ¹ , Seyed Ali Mohammad Mousavi ² , Abdoljavad Ahmadi ³

1 - MA in Psychology
2 - PhD Imam Khomeini International University
3 - PhD Imam Khomeini International University

Received: 2015-05-31 Accepted : 2015-05-31 Published : 2014-09-23

Keywords: obsessive  compulsive disorder, prospective memory, meta-memory, feeling  of-knowing judgment,

Abstract :

this study aimed to compare prospective memory and meta-memory (feeling- of- knowing judgments) of normal individuals and individuals with OCD. The participants were 100 students of Imam Khomeini International University in Tehran and Islamic Azad University Karaj Branch. To assess the severity of OCD symptoms, the Maudsley Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory (Hodgson &Rachman, 1977) was used. Prospective memory, memory and metamemory performance were assessed by the Prospective and Retrospective Memory Questionnaire (Crawford, Smith, Della Sala, Logie,
Maylor, 2003) and the neutral and threat related material (adapted from Tuna, Tekcan, & Topcuoglu, 2005) respectively. The result of independent t–test indicated that the normal group had better scores in prospective memory than OCD group. The results of Manova indicated that meta-memory performance is better in normal group in comparison to OCD group but there wasn’t any difference between two groups in memory performance.