Prospective Memory and What Costs Do Not Reveal about Retrieval Processes: A Commentary on Smith, Hunt, McVay, and McConnell (2007)

Autor/inn/en	Einstein, Gilles O.; McDaniel, Mark A.
Titel	Prospective Memory and What Costs Do Not Reveal about Retrieval Processes: A Commentary on Smith, Hunt, McVay, and McConnell (2007)
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 36 (2010) 4, S.1082-1088 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
DOI	10.1037/a0019184
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Memory; Costs; Task Analysis; Experimental Psychology; Experiments; Attention; Cognitive Processes; Control Groups; Evaluation Methods; Cues + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gedächtnis; Cost; Kosten; Aufgabenanalyse; Experimentelle Psychologie; Erprobung; Aufmerksamkeit; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Stichwort
Abstract	On the basis of consistently finding significant overall costs to the ongoing task with a single salient target event, Smith, Hunt, McVay, and McConnell (2007) concluded that preparatory attentional processes are required for prospective remembering and that spontaneous retrieval does not occur. In this article, we argue that overall costs are not completely informative in terms of specifying the underlying processes mediating prospective memory retrieval, and we suggest more promising approaches for testing for the existence of these processes. We also argue that counterbalancing in a within-subjects design is one of several proper methods for assessing costs. (Contains 2 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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