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A multinomial model of event-based prospective memory.

Rebekah E Smith·Ute J Bayen
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Prospective memory is remembering to perform an action in the future. The authors introduce the 1st formal model of event-based prospective memory, namely, a multinomial model that includes 2 separate parameters related to prospective memory processes. The 1st measures preparatory attentional processes, and the 2nd measures retrospective memory processes. The model was validated in 4 experiments. Manipulations of instructions to place importance on either the prospective memory task or the background task (Experiments 1 and 2) and manipulations of distinctiveness of prospective memory targets (Experiment 2) had expected effects on model parameters, as did a manipulation of the difficulty of prospective memory target encoding (Experiments 3 and 4). An alternative model was also evaluated.

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Rebekah E Smith, Ute J Bayen. 2004. A multinomial model of event-based prospective memory.. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.30.4.756

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