Cargando…
Event versus activity-based cues and motivation in school-related prospective memory tasks
Prospective memory (PM), the ability to remember an intention in the future, is essential to children’s everyday lives. We explored age differences (6- to 7- vs. 10- to 11-year-olds) in PM depending on the nature of the task and the children’s motivation. Children performed event-based PM tasks (in...
Autores principales: | , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
Public Library of Science
2019
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6474621/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31002710 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215845 |
_version_ | 1783412637405544448 |
---|---|
author | Cejudo, Ana B. McDaniel, Mark A. Bajo, M. Teresa |
author_facet | Cejudo, Ana B. McDaniel, Mark A. Bajo, M. Teresa |
author_sort | Cejudo, Ana B. |
collection | PubMed |
description | Prospective memory (PM), the ability to remember an intention in the future, is essential to children’s everyday lives. We explored age differences (6- to 7- vs. 10- to 11-year-olds) in PM depending on the nature of the task and the children’s motivation. Children performed event-based PM tasks (in which the cue was presented during the ongoing activity) and activity-based PM tasks (in which the cue consisted of finishing the ongoing activity). Additionally, the children were assigned to either a reward condition or a no-reward condition. The results showed better performance in event than in activity based tasks, with older children outperforming younger children in both. There was a marginal effect of reward for PM accuracy. These patterns suggest that the cue detection process and children’s motivation play a role in PM performance during development. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-6474621 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2019 |
publisher | Public Library of Science |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-64746212019-05-03 Event versus activity-based cues and motivation in school-related prospective memory tasks Cejudo, Ana B. McDaniel, Mark A. Bajo, M. Teresa PLoS One Research Article Prospective memory (PM), the ability to remember an intention in the future, is essential to children’s everyday lives. We explored age differences (6- to 7- vs. 10- to 11-year-olds) in PM depending on the nature of the task and the children’s motivation. Children performed event-based PM tasks (in which the cue was presented during the ongoing activity) and activity-based PM tasks (in which the cue consisted of finishing the ongoing activity). Additionally, the children were assigned to either a reward condition or a no-reward condition. The results showed better performance in event than in activity based tasks, with older children outperforming younger children in both. There was a marginal effect of reward for PM accuracy. These patterns suggest that the cue detection process and children’s motivation play a role in PM performance during development. Public Library of Science 2019-04-19 /pmc/articles/PMC6474621/ /pubmed/31002710 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215845 Text en © 2019 Cejudo et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Cejudo, Ana B. McDaniel, Mark A. Bajo, M. Teresa Event versus activity-based cues and motivation in school-related prospective memory tasks |
title | Event versus activity-based cues and motivation in school-related prospective memory tasks |
title_full | Event versus activity-based cues and motivation in school-related prospective memory tasks |
title_fullStr | Event versus activity-based cues and motivation in school-related prospective memory tasks |
title_full_unstemmed | Event versus activity-based cues and motivation in school-related prospective memory tasks |
title_short | Event versus activity-based cues and motivation in school-related prospective memory tasks |
title_sort | event versus activity-based cues and motivation in school-related prospective memory tasks |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6474621/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31002710 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215845 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT cejudoanab eventversusactivitybasedcuesandmotivationinschoolrelatedprospectivememorytasks AT mcdanielmarka eventversusactivitybasedcuesandmotivationinschoolrelatedprospectivememorytasks AT bajomteresa eventversusactivitybasedcuesandmotivationinschoolrelatedprospectivememorytasks |