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Early developmental trends on time- and event-based prospective memory tasks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 October 2015

David Shum ,
Rochelle Matjac  and
Heather Ward
David Shum*
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, Griffith University
Rochelle Matjac
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, Griffith University
Heather Ward
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, Griffith University
*
School of Psychology, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland Australia 4111, Phone: 61 7 3875 3370, E-mail: d.shum@griffith.edu.au
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Abstract

This study assessed childhood prospective memory, the memory for future intentions such as remembering to hand in homework by: (a) comparing 47 children in three age groups; (b) using both time- (i.e., CyberCruiser)*, and event-based (i.e., a card sorting task) prospective memory tosks; and (c) examining relationships between prospective and retrospective memory, and prospective memory and two tests of executive function (Stroop Colour-Word Interference Test [Stroop] and Tower of London [TOL]. Results indicated improvements with age, albeit not identical patterns of improvement, on both prospective- and retrospective-memory tasks and the TOL Furthermore, the TOL was significantly correlated with both measures of prospective memory. The different patterns of improvement with age on the prospective memory tasks suggest that it is not the type of task per se that matters so much as the complexity of the task. It is recommended that aspects of task demand be investigated further.

Keywords

Prospective memoryRetrospective memoryChildrenExecutive functions

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The Educational and Developmental Psychologist , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , 2005 , pp. 38 - 53
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Copyright © Australian Psychological Society 2005

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Footnotes

* The authors wish to thank Kimberley Kerns for providing a copy of CyberCruiser, the task she designed.

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