Hefer, Carmen and Cohen, Anna-Lisa and Jaudas, Alexander and Dreisbach, Gesine (2017) The flexible engagement of monitoring processes in non-focal and focal prospective memory tasks with salient cues. ACTA PSYCHOLOGICA, 179. pp. 42-53. ISSN 0001-6918, 1873-6297
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Prospective memory (PM) refers to the ability to remember to perform a delayed intention. Here, we aimed to investigate the ability to suspend such an intention and thus to confirm previous findings (Cohen, Gordon, Jaudas, Hefer, & Dreisbach, 2016) demonstrating the ability to flexibly engage in monitoring processes. In the current study, we presented a perceptually salient PM cue (bold and red) to rule out that previous findings were limited to non-salient and, thus, easy to ignore PM cues. Moreover, we used both a non-focal (Experiment 1) and a focal PM (Experiment 2) cue. In both Experiments, three groups of participants performed an Erilcsen flanker task as an ongoing task with an embedded PM task (they had to remember to press the F1 key if a pre-specified cue appeared). Participants were assigned to either a control condition (performed solely the flanker task), a standard PM condition (performed the flanker task along with the PM task), or a PM delayed condition (performed the flanker task but were instructed to postpone their PM task intention). The results of Experiment 1 with the non-focal PM cue closely replicated those of Cohen et a1 (2016) and confirmed that participants were able to successfully postpone the PM cue intention without additional costs even when the PM cue was a perceptually salient one. However, when the PM cue was focal (Experiment 2), it was much more difficult for participants to ignore it as evidenced by commission errors and slower latencies on PM cue trials. In sum, results showed that the focality of the PM cue plays a more crucial role in the flexibility of the monitoring process whereas the saliency of the PM cue does not.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | SPONTANEOUS RETRIEVAL; COMMISSION ERRORS; INTENTION; INTERFERENCE; COST; REQUIREMENTS; DIFFICULTY; COVARIES; REMEMBER; Prospective memory; Postponed PM intentions; Cue salience; Cue focality |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Psychology and Pedagogy > Institut für Psychologie Psychology and Pedagogy > Institut für Psychologie > Lehrstuhl für Psychologie II (Allgemeine und Angewandte Psychologie) - Prof. Dr. Gesine Dreisbach |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Dec 2018 13:15 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Feb 2019 13:53 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/1311 |
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