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Age and Prospective Memory

Maylor, Elizabeth A.·1990·The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A
DOI 10.1080/14640749008401233
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This paper reports an investigation into the effects of age, intelligence, and retrospective memory on performance in a prospective memory task in which subjects aged between 52 and 95 were required to telephone once a day either between two times or at an exact time. The most important influence on performance was how subjects chose to remember to make the telephone calls. The best performance was from subjects who telephoned either in conjunction with another routine event or engaged in some form of advanced planning of the daily schedule. The worst performance was from those who relied on internal cues from their own memory. Performance was intermediate from those who used external cues such as notes or diary entries. Subjects in the between condition were less likely to choose internal cues than those in the exact condition, possibly because the task appeared more difficult, and this resulted in their showing superior performance. The effect of age was influenced by the cue used. For subjects using internal cues, those who forgot were older than those who remembered, whereas for subjects using the other cues, those who forgot were younger than those who remembered. Regardless of cue, self-ratings of cognitive failures were related to performance such that those who reported more minor everyday mistakes were indeed more likely to forget to telephone. While there was some indirect effect of general intelligence on performance in the task, there was no relationship between r…

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  • Participants' adaptive use of an externalizing strategy suggests that metacognitive awareness of the likelihood of forgetting prompted compensatory offloading of intentions.

    “Participants' adaptive use of an externalizing strategy suggests that their metacognitive awareness of the likelihood of forgetting (i.e., more likely when there is a higher memory load, or a more distracting ongoing task) prompted compensatory offloading of intentions (see Maylor, 1990, for a related finding).”

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Authors
Maylor, E. A.
Affiliations
Age and Cognitive Performance Research Centre, Manchester, U.K.
Corresponding author
Maylor, Elizabeth A.
ORCID
Maylor, Elizabeth A.
Venue
The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
1990-08
Volume
42
Issue
3
Pages
471-493
ISSN
  • 0272-4987 (ISSN-L)
  • 1464-0740
DOI
10.1080/14640749008401233
OpenAlex
W1973930868
Cited by
228
References
20
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 8 · 2014: 11 · 2013: 7 · 2012: 9
FWCI
5.39
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
  • The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Functions and Memory
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology › Aging and Gerontology Research
Keywords
prospective memory, aging, age differences, general intelligence, retrospective memory, internal cues, external cues, cognitive failure
MeSH terms
Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Aging, Attention, Cues, Female, Humans, Intelligence, Life Change Events, Male, Middle Aged, Mental Recall, Retention, Psychology

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