The Cognitive Processes Underlying Event-Based Prospective Memory in School-Age Children and Young Adults: A Formal Model-Based Study

Fifty children 7 years of age (29 girls, 21 boys), 53 children 10 years of age (29 girls, 24 boys), and 36 young adults (19 women, 17 men) performed a computerized event-based prospective memory task. All 3 groups differed significantly in prospective memory performance, with adults showing the best...

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Published in:Developmental psychology 2010-01, Vol.46 (1), p.230-244
Main Authors: Smith, Rebekah E, Bayen, Ute J, Martin, Claudia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Adult Development
Age Differences
Age Factors
Association Learning - physiology
Attention - physiology
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child development
Childhood Development
Children
Children & youth
Cognition & reasoning
Cognition - physiology
Cognitive development
Cognitive Processes
Computer Assisted Testing
Developmental psychology
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Humans
Learning. Memory
Male
Memory
Memory - physiology
Mind
Models, Psychological
Neuropsychological Tests
Peer groups
Performance Based Assessment
Probability
Prospective Memory
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Reaction Time - physiology
Surveys
Time Factors
Young Adult
Young Adults
Young children
Youth
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Summary:Fifty children 7 years of age (29 girls, 21 boys), 53 children 10 years of age (29 girls, 24 boys), and 36 young adults (19 women, 17 men) performed a computerized event-based prospective memory task. All 3 groups differed significantly in prospective memory performance, with adults showing the best performance and with 7-year-olds showing the poorest performance. We used a formal multinomial process tree model of event-based prospective memory to decompose age differences in cognitive processes that jointly contribute to prospective memory performance. The formal modeling results demonstrate that adults differed significantly from the 7-year-olds and the 10-year-olds on both the prospective component and the retrospective component of the task. The 7-year-olds and the 10-year-olds differed only in the ability to recognize prospective memory target events. The prospective memory task imposed a cost to ongoing activities in all 3 age groups.
ISSN:0012-1649
1939-0599
DOI:10.1037/a0017100