NSC 3311 Lecture 23: Prospective Memory
27 Jul 2016
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Leaving surgical instruments in patient: aviation mistake, these failures can have profound consequences, prospective memory, the ability to remember to perform delayed intentions in the future, frequency. Errors relative to other kind of memory errors is up to 50% or more. Retrieval must be self- initiated: remember to remember, types. I have to remember to do this at that specific context: when i get to the dinner table i have to remember to get medicine, external cues. I have to remember to do something at a certain time or time span. How can these distinctions be muddled: having a timer as external cue, methodology. Beth loftus: mail postcards by sunday, summarize. Laboratory task: by gil einstein and mark mcdaniel, developed this test to measure pm. Occurs in the absence of cost: factors that moderate reliance on either spontaneous or monitoring. Individuals need to monitor only for very difficult tasks: metacognition.
