Explain what prospective memory is. What could you do in your everyday life to improve your prospective memory?
What will be an ideal response?
Student examples will vary. A sample answer follows.
Prospective memory means remembering that you need or want to perform a task sometime in the future. For instance, if my grandmother expects me to call her every Sunday, then I hope that prospective memory occurs to me before bedtime Sunday night.
I can improve my prospective memory by creating cues for myself. For instance, I could add a "call Granny" alert to my phone for Sunday afternoons, or I could sketch a picture of a telephone and put the sketch on the door to my room. Based on what I learned in the rest of this chapter, the more time and effort I put into creating the cue, the greater the chances that I will remember the information.
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