In:
Psychological Science, SAGE Publications, Vol. 9, No. 4 ( 1998-07), p. 284-288
Kurzfassung:
Routine or habitual prospective memory tasks (e.g., taking medication) have the potential for creating confusions regarding whether or not an action has already been performed. We developed a laboratory paradigm for examining the kinds of processes thought to be operating in these kinds of tasks. Younger and older participants were asked to perform an action once and only once on each of 11 trials. The results showed that age and divided attention contributed to both omission and repetition errors. This new paradigm reveals memory failures in a habitual prospective memory task, and the results demonstrate that older adults are particularly susceptible to these memory problems.
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
ISSN:
0956-7976
,
1467-9280
DOI:
10.1111/1467-9280.00056
Sprache:
Englisch
Verlag:
SAGE Publications
Publikationsdatum:
1998
ZDB Id:
2022256-7
SSG:
5,2