title: Investigating the output monitoring component of event-based prospective memory performance.
abstract: The goal of this study was to augment the standard event-based prospective memory paradigm with an output monitoring component. That component involves memory for past actions and, in the context of prospective memory, is largely responsible for repetition and omission errors. The modified paradigm also provides an index of what people believe to be true concerning their past prospective memory performance. More elaborate prospective responses decreased forgetting that an intention had been fulfilled, whereas contextual change increased forgetting. In Experiments 1-3, people often reported that they had fulfilled an intention on a previous occasion when they actually had not, but distinctive responses reduced that error in Experiment 4. Therefore, people's beliefs about their past performance can influence the incidence of repetition and omission errors in event-based prospective memory tasks.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens 30602-3013, USA. rlmarsh@uga.edu
authors.forename: Richard L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Marsh
authors.forename: Jason L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Hicks
authors.forename: Thomas W
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Hancock
authors.forename: Kirk
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Munsayac
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011930:Reaction Time; D014825:Vocabulary