Investigating Retrospective and Prospective Metamemory Judgments During Episodic Memory in Patients With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders

Irak M., Topçuoğlu V., Duman T. N., Akyurt S., Yılmaz İ., Pala İ. Y.

Behavior Therapy, cilt.55, sa.2, ss.277-291, 2024 (SSCI) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 55 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2024
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.beth.2023.07.002
  • Dergi Adı: Behavior Therapy
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, ASSIA, PASCAL, Periodicals Index Online, BIOSIS, CINAHL, EMBASE, Psycinfo
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.277-291
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: episodic memory, feeling of knowing, judgment of learning, metamemory, obsessive-compulsive disorder, recognition
  • Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

It is clear evidence that individuals diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) lack confidence in their memory and have low metamemory performance (judgment and accuracy). However, it is still unclear whether low metamemory performance is specific to first, domain general or domain specific, and second, to stimulus domain. To address these issues, we compared individuals diagnosed with OCD and healthy controls (HCs) on recognition, retrospective (judgments of learning [JOL]) and prospective (feeling of knowing [FOK]) metamemory judgments and under three different episodic memory tasks, which consisted of symptom-free, familiar and unfamiliar stimuli (word, scene, and face photo). OCD patients showed lower recognition performance, JOL and FOK judgments, and accuracy in all tasks than HCs. Also, OCD patients were slower than HCs during all cognitive performances. In both groups, metamemory performances were lower in familiar items than unfamiliar items. However, recognition performances were not affected by stimulus type. Our results support the idea of general episodic memory and a metamemory deficit in OCD. Moreover, metamemory deficits in OCD are domain general.