The development of children\'s Prospective memory: A comparison of the performance with time-based task and event-based task
AUTHOR : 서지연, 최경숙
INFORMATION : page. 87~101 / 2004 Vol.11 No.1
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to analyze the development of children\'s prospective memory with the time-based task and the event-based task. The subjects were total 90 three to five year old children. Each age group was randomly divided into two subgroups, time-based task group and event-based task group. An experimenter presented 8 picture cards to a child and then asked him/her to remember what he/she saw. And then, the experimenter requested child to choose one of 8 picture cards and to put it in care of the experimenter while he/she was performing puzzle game. During performing puzzle game, children in the event-based task group were asked to bring back the card to the experimenter when they received the cue. In the condition of the time-based task group children were asked to return the card to the experimenter without the cue after finishing the puzzle game. The results were followings. First, the performance of prospective memory increased significantly with age. Second, all children performed the event-based task better than time-based task. Third, younger children performed the event-based task better than time-based task, and the performance gap between time-based task and event-based task becomes narrow with age. These results were interpreted as that the performance of the event-based task develops earlier than the performance of the time-based task.