Commission errors of active intentions: the roles of aging, cognitive load, and practice
Commission errors of active intentions: the roles of aging, cognitive load, and practice
复制标题
DOI：
10.1080/13825585.2014.1002446
复制
发表时间：
2015-09-03
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Meiser, Thorsten
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Boywitt, C. Dennis;Rummel, Jan;Meiser, Thorsten
当需要抑制时执行预期的动作，例如，当临时开出的药物与其他药物不相容时，被称为预期记忆的委托错误（PM）。虽然最近的研究表明，老年人特别容易在已完成的意图上犯下错误，但缺乏关于老龄化对仍然活跃的意图犯下错误的影响的研究。本研究调查了可能导致老年人在不适当的条件下执行计划意图的倾向的条件。具体来说，在具有显着（实验 1）和非显着（实验 2）目标线索的情况下，老年人在仍然活跃的意图上犯下的错误率比年轻人要高得多。然而，在实验 2 中练习 PM 任务有助于执行预期操作，以更快的持续任务响应时间获得更高的 PM 性能，但不会增加委托错误率。研究结果对于理解老年人的 PM 委员会错误以及这些错误所涉及的过程具有重要意义。
Performing an intended action when it needs to be withheld, for example, when temporarily prescribed medication is incompatible with the other medication, is referred to as commission errors of prospective memory (PM). While recent research indicates that older adults are especially prone to commission errors for finished intentions, there is a lack of research on the effects of aging on commission errors for still active intentions. The present research investigates conditions which might contribute to older adults' propensity to perform planned intentions under inappropriate conditions. Specifically, disproportionally higher rates of commission errors for still active intentions were observed in older than in younger adults with both salient (Experiment 1) and non-salient (Experiment 2) target cues. Practicing the PM task in Experiment 2, however, helped execution of the intended action in terms of higher PM performance at faster ongoing-task response times but did not increase the rate of commission errors. The results have important implications for the understanding of older adults' PM commission errors and the processes involved in these errors.