What is prospective memory?

Memory for things we need to do in the future -two fold: remembering intention + acting on intention -when.....remember to......

Testing PM

Participants are asked to remember to do something (such as pick up a deck of cards) while occupied with another activity -watch movie but also pick up cards at designated times -PM based on how often they preform the task

Event based PM

Preforming actions in response to a cue -Can be either immediate or delayed -immediate: red light = press brakes -delay: see that fridge is empty = buy groceries tomorrow

Monitoring for cue - event based PM

-Used eye tracking to see how often people move eyes in expectation of a cue and on semantically related cues

Time based PM

Preforming a task at a specific time -do x thing at y time

event based vs time based PM task in lexical decision task

-increased delay in time for event based PM led to decreased performance over time due monitoring being more difficult to maintain -time based can be more passive or reactive (you know when you need to respond) -in event based, do not know when need to respond

Two kinds of control in prospective memory

Proactive control: