The cost of event-based prospective memory in children
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Janet Leigh (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Stuart Marcovitch
Abstract: Prospective memory is remembering to perform an action in the future when a
cue is presented. However, processes involved in remembering the future intention (i.e.,
preparatory attentional processes) might hinder performance on activities leading up to
and surrounding the event in which an intention must be carried out. The current study
was designed to assess whether young children who engage in prospective memory do so
at a cost to current cognitive processing. Four-, 5-, and 6-year old children either
performed a simple ongoing selection task only (control condition) or performed the
selection task with an embedded prospective memory task (experimental condition).
Results demonstrated that children in the experimental condition slowed down in phase
two due relative to children in the control condition. The results are discussed in terms of
the development of executive functioning and more specifically, how working memory
and speed of processing my play a role in the cost imposed to an ongoing task by a
prospective memory task.
The cost of event-based prospective memory in children
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Thesis
- Language: English
- Date: 2008
- Keywords
- Children, Executive Function, Memory, Preparatory Attentional Processes, Prospective Memory
- Subjects
- Prospective memory.
- Memory in children.
- Cognition in children.
- Human information processing in children.
- Child development.