Abstract
Experimental results that delay and self-assessment of prospective memory in present research contradict with each other. This paper adopted a word-detect prospective memory task which was inlaid in some self-confident assessment items. The frequency of the target word increased across trials. The result indicated that: (1) A short delay between prospective memory instructions and background activity will lower the prospective memory performance. But in the period of 7–57 minutes (7 min, 17 min, 27 min, 37 min, 57 min) prospective memory maintained. This result supported the suggestion that prospective memory forgetting may occur only during the first minutes after the encoding of intention; (2) There is no significant correlation between prospective memory and retrospective memory, so do some other variables like, sex, intelligence, and personality (16 indices of 16PF and 4 indices of Eysenck); (3) Correlation between prospective memory and retrospective monitor is significant, while nonsignificant relationship is found for self-assessment; (4) Age greatly influences prospective memory and self-assessment, children are overconfident and the elder are not so good as the young both in self-assessment and performance.
| Keywords: | prospective memory; retrospective memory; self-assessment; retention interval |
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