Prospective memory tasks related to goals and concerns are rated as more important by both young and older adults.
There has been little research on variables that affect importance ratings for real prospective memory tasks (e.g., remembering to take medications). Our primary purpose was to test a claim in the motivational-cognitive model of prospective memory, namely that prospective memory tasks highly related...
| Publicado en: | European Journal of Ageing Vol. 10; no. 3; pp. 211 - 222 |
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