title: Dimensions of everyday memory in young adulthood.
abstract: This paper reports the findings of two studies on everyday memory in young adulthood. In Study 1, 387 male and female college students (18-22 years old) completed the 25-item Cognitive Failures Questionnaire (CFQ; Broadbent, Cooper, Fitzgerald & Parkes, 1982). Principal components analysis yielded five internally consistent factors: distractibility; misdirected actions; spatial/kinaesthetic memory; interpersonal intelligence; and memory for names. Further, each of these dimensions was interpretable within an information-processing framework. Study 2 examined the relation of the five everyday memory dimensions obtained in Study 1 to measures of working memory and traditional intelligence in a separate sample of 32 college students. Findings obtained in Study 2 suggest that attentional processes may be important components of the everyday memory construct.
authors.affiliation: West Virginia University.
authors.forename: L K
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Pollina
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Greene
authors.forename: R H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Tunick
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Puckett
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D003071:Cognition; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D012737:Sex Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires