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Einstein, Gilles O.; McDaniel, Mark A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
On the basis of consistently finding significant overall costs to the ongoing task with a single salient target event, Smith, Hunt, McVay, and McConnell (2007) concluded that preparatory attentional processes are required for prospective remembering and that spontaneous retrieval does not occur. In this article, we argue that overall costs are not…
Descriptors: Memory, Costs, Task Analysis, Experimental Psychology
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Einstein, Gilles O.; McDaniel, Mark A.; Thomas, Ruthann; Mayfield, Sara; Shank, Hilary; Morrisette, Nova; Breneiser, Jennifer – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2005
Theoretically, prospective memory retrieval can be accomplished either by controlled monitoring of the environment for a target event or by a more reflexive process that spontaneously responds to the presence of a target event. These views were evaluated in Experiments 1-4 by examining whether performing a prospective memory task produced costs on…
Descriptors: Memory, Cognitive Processes, Recall (Psychology), Task Analysis