Prediction accuracy and medication instructions: Will you remember tomorrow?

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 memorabil ity of the specific aspects of the instructions. Participants were given a structured recall task after a 24-hour delay. Recall performance was measur ed, and the accuracy of ease-of-recall ratings was assessed in multiple way s. Younger adults were superior overall at recalling medication instruction s, and at predicting absolute memorability. However, the two age groups did not differ when epistemic awareness was assessed using a relative predicti on accuracy measure.