The demands of an ongoing activity influence the success of event-based prospective memory |
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Authors: | Marsh Richard L Hancock Thomas W Hicks Jason L |
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Affiliation: | Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens 30602-3013, USA. rlmarsh@uga.edu |
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Abstract: | Four experiments were conducted to evaluate whether event-based prospective memory would be sensitive to the concurrent demands of the ongoing activity in which intention-related cues were embedded. In Experiments 1 and 2, random alternation between two judgments in the ongoing task reduced prospective memory as compared with having a single task throughout. In Experiment 3, participants' making two binary judgments on every trial resulted in worse prospective memory than did their making single four-alternative judgments. In Experiment 4, participants' making two related judgments resulted in better prospective memory than did their making two unrelated judgments. The results are consistent in spirit with a production rule account of the processing resources that are available when intention-related cues are encountered. Therefore, event-based prospective memory can inversely covary with the cognitive demands of the ongoing activity. |
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