Title:
Cognitive control and prospective memory performance: A mediation approach

dc.contributor.advisor Verhaeghen, Paul
dc.contributor.author Martin, Jessie D.
dc.contributor.committeeMember Engle, Randy
dc.contributor.committeeMember Singleton, Jenny
dc.contributor.department Psychology
dc.date.accessioned 2016-01-07T17:22:36Z
dc.date.available 2016-01-07T17:22:36Z
dc.date.created 2015-12
dc.date.issued 2015-08-11
dc.date.submitted December 2015
dc.date.updated 2016-01-07T17:22:36Z
dc.description.abstract The majority of memory research, and research on its cognitive underpinnings has thus far focused on retrospective memory, or memory for things learned or rehearsed in the past. More recently, however, prospective memory, or the memory for future intentions, has become a major area of research. It is theorized that prospective and retrospective memory may both rely on similar constituent parts such as working memory and selective attention; the relationship between these constructs and prospective memory is, however, significantly less clear than for retrospective memory. In this study we sought to further clarify the role that cognitive process play in prospective memory performance using an SEM approach that included monitoring as a mediating variable in addition to focal, non-focal, and time-based prospective memory task condition. Results suggest a monitoring component is important in both focal and non-focal conditions, and that the type of monitoring observed in this study is related primarily to proactive interference, and reflects participants’ ability to disengage from no longer relevant stimuli¬¬¬.
dc.description.degree M.S.
dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/54324
dc.language.iso en_US
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology
dc.subject Prospective memory
dc.subject Working memory capacity
dc.subject Individual differences
dc.subject Cognitive control
dc.title Cognitive control and prospective memory performance: A mediation approach
dc.type Text
dc.type.genre Thesis
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local.contributor.advisor Verhaeghen, Paul
local.contributor.corporatename College of Sciences
local.contributor.corporatename School of Psychology
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thesis.degree.level Masters
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