Developmental Examination of Effect of Learned Helplessness on Feelinf-of-Knowing Judgment

Abstract

In this research, it was aimed to exhibit whether learned helplessness influences feeling-of-knowing scores and accuracy of feeling-of-knowing judgments or not. It was also intended to specify whether a developmental difference between feeling-of-knowing scores and accuracy of feeling-of-knowing judgments exists. The research was conducted on age groups of adolescent (16-18 age), early adult (21-24 age) and medium adult (40-45 age). 90 subjects participated in the study. While to create feeling of helplessness Maze of Line Test was used, to measure feeling of knowing an episodic task composed of stages of learning, recall, making decision and recognition was used. One-way Analysis of Variance results showed that exposure to helplessness training did not affect feeling-of-knowing scores and accuracy of feeling-of-knowing judgments. Furthermore, it was found that any significant difference among adolescent, early adult and medium adult age groups did not exist with respect to feeling-of-knowing scores and accuracy of feeling-of-knowing judgments.