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A large-scale comparison of prospective and retrospective memory development from childhood to middle age
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Maylor, Elizabeth A. and Logie, Robert H. (2010) A large-scale comparison of prospective and retrospective memory development from childhood to middle age. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Vol.63 (No.3). pp. 442-451. doi:10.1080/17470210903469872 ISSN 1747-0218.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470210903469872
Abstract
We present the first large-scale comparison of prospective memory (PM) and retrospective memory (RM) from 8 to 50 years of age (N = 318,614). Participants in an Internet study were asked to remember to click on a smiley face (single-trial event-based PM test) and to indicate whether/where a picture had changed from study to test (single-trial RM test), in both cases after retention intervals filled with working-memory tests and questionnaires. Both PM and RM improved during childhood; however, whereas maximal PM was reached by teenagers, with approximately linear decline through the 20s-40s, RM continued to improve through the 20s and 30s. On both tests, females outperformed males and achieved maximal success at earlier ages. Strikingly, 10-11-year-old girls performed significantly better than females in their late 20s on the PM test. The presence of the smiley face at encoding and temporal uncertainty (expecting it olatero rather than at the oendo of the test) both benefited PM; these effects decreased and increased, respectively, from childhood to middle age. The findings demonstrate that in a cross-sectional study (a) developmental trajectories are qualitatively different between PM and RM, and (b) the relative influence of PM cues differs between younger and older ages.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Developmental psychology, Prospective memory, Memory -- Age factors, Internet questionnaires | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology | ||||
Publisher: | Psychology Press | ||||
ISSN: | 1747-0218 | ||||
Official Date: | 2010 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.63 | ||||
Number: | No.3 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 10 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 442-451 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1080/17470210903469872 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 3 December 2015 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 3 December 2015 |
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