Social importance enhances prospective memory: evidence from an event-based task
| Autor: | Stefan Markus Walter, Beat Meier |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Adolescent Memory Episodic Event based Control (management) Neuropsychological Tests 050105 experimental psychology Task (project management) Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Reward Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Prospective memory Humans Attention 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 610 Medicine & health Baseline (configuration management) General Psychology Event (computing) 05 social sciences Social Dominance Female Cues 150 Psychology Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Memory. 25:777-783 |
| ISSN: | 1464-0686 0965-8211 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09658211.2016.1221973 |
| Popis: | Prospective memory performance can be enhanced by task importance, for example by promising a reward. Typically, this comes at costs in the ongoing task. However, previous research has suggested that social importance (e.g., providing a social motive) can enhance prospective memory performance without additional monitoring costs in activity-based and time-based tasks. The aim of the present study was to investigate the influence of social importance in an event-based task. We compared four conditions: social importance, promising a reward, both social importance and promising a reward, and standard prospective memory instructions (control condition). The results showed enhanced prospective memory performance for all importance conditions compared to the control condition. Although ongoing task performance was slowed in all conditions with a prospective memory task when compared to a baseline condition with no prospective memory task, additional costs occurred only when both the social importance and reward were present simultaneously. Alone, neither social importance nor promising a reward produced an additional slowing when compared to the cost in the standard (control) condition. Thus, social importance and reward can enhance event-based prospective memory at no additional cost. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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