Talk:Prospective memory

Prospective memory
Any comments on adding the following to discussion of prospective memory?

Event-based prospective memory can be exploited using deliberate acts that will produce a notable event at the time that the memory needs to be recalled such as setting an alarm or placing a shoe in the sink to remind you to take the trash out in the morning. Prospective memory can be enhanced by ordinary acts such as making a grocery list or a to-do list. 4.232.0.196 18:56, 14 August 2006 (UTC)


 * What you're suggesting is correct. That a time-based prospective intention can effectively be turned into an event-based intention by explicitly creating a reminder cue. There is a literature on this sort of thing, often talking about it as 'strategies', I think. Interestingly, (I don't have a reference in front of me) older people perform worse on ProM task than younger people in lab settings. However, in naturalistic settings, there is usually no difference, in fact older adults at times perform better and some have argued that this is due to the use of such strategies (which are not available in a computer-based lab task).--Limegreen 22:10, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Limegreen, the phenomena to which you mention is the age-prospective memory paradox (Rendell & Craik, 2000). That is, studies show an age deficit in laboratory settings when testing for PM, but an age-superiority when in a naturalistic environment. It is a topic of much debate (especially if one considers the practical implications of it). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 27.32.239.196 (talk) 14:29, 22 September 2010 (UTC) Any interest in having a seperate page on age related changes in prospective memory?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.252.57.224 (talk) 18:34, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Intro paragraph
I edited the intro paragraph a bit. As a first-time reader it was a bit confusing but after reading other sources I was able to make sense of it so I tried to reflect the basic concept as to engage a reader in a more clear way. Jsarmi 15:47, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Possible Outline
Here's a simple outline structure with my initial thoughts on content. I intend to re-use as much as I can, of course, just slotting it in where I can. Lede - to be mostly lay-oriented, starting with as good an ordianry-language definition as we can find plus Winograd, suggesting the issues and complications with the lay definition. I would like to hook up not just to Aging, but also time management implications, if any. DCDuring 00:51, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Competing Definitions and Recency of Interest
 * Leading Theories
 * Potential and Actual Applications

Part of the lede was changed here to a version that makes less sense. I think also the reference to external stimuli you mention here is partly made less clear by the other edit, but there is a distinction between external initiation and an external cue. The cue is something you detect, as opposed to something that directly and explicitly prompts retrieval (like being asked What did you do yesterday?). This is especially true where the cue stimulus wasn't explicitly assigned that. So a post-it obviously serves as a reminder cue, and was probably made explicitly, but if you see a wikipedia article on food, which reminds you that you have to order a cake for a friend's birthday, there was no prior intention that the article was a cue. I'm not sure that that's explained perfectly well, but that's sort of the point of the distinction.--Limegreen 02:00, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

That would even make sense to a layman - with a little patience. It must make sense to an experimental psychologist or a social psychologist. It probably makes less sense to a philosopher or a neuroscientist. I suppose everyone, except the layman, thinks that using external memory aids (or loci ?) is cheating. DCDuring 02:14, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

- time based prospective memory does not include the given example "10.00 o´clock"...The face that you realize it is 10.00 is not to be regarded as time, it is an event...Time-based prospective memory is initiated after time is elapsed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.155.234.250 (talk) 16:13, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Removal of "Stress" subsection (REL)
It seems obvious on its face, but this does not appear to be a reliable source.

Stress from high workload negatively affects prospective memory. In a study by Landsinger (2002), fifty-five undergraduates participated in a study comparing the effects of different stress and workload levels. Participants were assigned to one of four task groups (low workload-low stress, high workload-high stress, low workload-high stress, high workload- low stress) and all completed the same prospective memory task, with those in the high-workload groups also undertaking a simple arithmetic task (with lower difficulty in the low-stress group) at the same time. Overall success and the time it took in the prospective memory task were compared. — Preceding unsigned comment added by InformationvsInjustice (talk • contribs) 23:03, 4 January 2017 (UTC)