الفروق العمرية بين طلاب المرحلتين الإعدادية و الثانوية في الذاکرة المستقبلية

Age differences between Preparatory and Secondry stages

students in Prospective memory

Dr. Mamdouh Hassan Ghanem

Lecturer of Educational psychology

Department of Educational and Psychological Sciences

Faculty of Specific Education / Benha University

Abstract                   

The study aimed to reveal the age differences in Prospective memory, with its main component "retrospective and prospective " between Preparatory and Secondary stages students. The researcher applied a retrospective and prospective memory scale - prepared by him - on a volunteer exploratory sample of (40) students in the preparatory and secondary stages, to verify the validity and reliability of this scale. In order to answer the questions and hypotheses of the study, the researcher applied the study tool after estimating its validity and reliability on a basic volunteer sample of preparatory and Secondary stages students whose total number is (120): half of them (60) from preparatory  stage students, and the other half (60) from of Secondary stage students. The results were processed using appropriate statistical analysis. The results of the study showed that: Retrospective memory predicts the prospective memory of preparatory and secondary stages students, in addition to the absence of an effect of age on prospective memory. The results were discussed in the light of both the theoretical framework and related previous studies. Finally, the current study presented a number of recommendations and proposed researches stemming from its results.

key words :Age differences, Retrospective memory, prospective memory.