PSYCH 46A Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Prospective Memory
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Memory for people, words, and events encountered or experienced in the past. Remembering to carry out some intended action in the absence of any explicit reminder to do so. Relevant to plans and goals form for our daily lives. Prospective: time based, remembering to perform action at particular time, reliance on self generated cues>external cues, difficult, event based, remembering to perform action when appropriate circumstance, triggered by external cues, simple. Irl: older adults outperformed younger adults on prospective memory task. Lab: younger adults outperform older adults on time based prospective memory.
