THE EFFECT OF CUE-FAMILIARITY, CUE-DISTINCTIVENESS, AND RETENTION INTERVAL ON PROSPECTIVE REMEMBERING
THE EFFECT OF CUE-FAMILIARITY, CUE-DISTINCTIVENESS, AND RETENTION INTERVAL ON PROSPECTIVE REMEMBERING
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10.1080/14640749408401128
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发表时间:
1994-08-01
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PASSOLUNGHI, MC
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BRANDIMONTE, MA;PASSOLUNGHI, MC
Five experiments investigated the effects of cue familiarity, cue distinctiveness, and retention interval on prospective remembering. Results showed that (1) performance in a prospective memory task is facilitated when the rue is unfamiliar and/or distinctive; and (2) it is impaired by 3-minutes' delay between the instructions and the task (Experiment 1). A beneficial effect of distinctiveness was also found when perceptual rather than semantic distinctiveness was tested (Experiment 2). Experiments 3 and 4 ruled out the hypotheses that ''unfulfilled expectancy'' of an event (i.e. non-appearance of the cue during training) (Experiment 3), or some sort of ''habituation'' in the target context (Experiment 4), may have caused the low performance observed in the delayed conditions. Finally, results from Experiment 5 showed that delay negatively affected prospective remembering when it was filled with either a demanding interpolated activity (practice in a STM task) or an undemanding motoric activity (repetitive hands movements). Unfilled delay and an undemanding verbal activity (counting) were found not to affect prospective memory. Implications for the mechanisms underlying prospective remembering are discussed.