Improving children’s ability to remember intentions: a literature review on strategies to improve prospective memory during childhood

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Abstract

Children often fail to remember executing intentions because prospective memory (PM) does not completely develop until late adolescence or young adulthood. PM failures are often observed in children and can have negative consequences on their everyday lives. Thus, in the last 50 years, various strategies to support children’s PM have been designed and evaluated, such as prompting children to use different encoding modalities, such as verbal, visual, and enacted modalities, or encoding strategies, such as implementation intentions, episodic future thinking (EFT), and performance predictions, as well as providing children with verbal and visual reminders. However, not all these interventions have shown to efficiently enhance PM performance during childhood. The present literature review is aimed at summarizing these interventions and critically examining their effectiveness from a developmental perspective and by considering underlying mechanisms. The type of PM task (event-, time-, and activity-based), cognitive resource demands, and processing overlaps are also considered. Finally, directions for future research and possible applications in everyday life will be discussed.

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Cottini, M. (2023, November 1). Improving children’s ability to remember intentions: a literature review on strategies to improve prospective memory during childhood. Psychological Research. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-023-01834-8

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