Psychological Development and Education ›› 2016, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (2): 149-157.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2016.02.03

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The Effect of the Focality of Processing and Ongoing Task Load on Prospective Memory for Undergraduates with Different Cognitive Styles

WANG Li, LI Shouxin, ZHANG Qian   

  1. School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014
  • Online:2016-03-15 Published:2016-03-15

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Abstract: The present study aimed to investigate how the focality of processing and ongoing task load affect the event-based prospective memory (EBPM) for undergraduates with different cognitive styles. This study contained two experiments. Experiment 1 examined the effect of the focality of processing and the matching in the types of processing between the prospective memory task and ongoing task on EBPM for field-independent (FI) and field-dependent (FD) undergraduates. Experiment 2 investigated how ongoing task load and the focality of processing affected the EBPM for FI and FD undergraduates. The results showed that, (1) the performance in focal processing condition was better than that in nonfocal processing condition, which was not affected by the change of the ongoing task load; (2) under conditions of high ongoing task load and nonfocal processing, the performance for FI undergraduates was significantly better than that for FD ones, which was not affected by the matching in the types of processing between the prospective memory task and ongoing task. The present study supports the multiprocess theory.

Key words: cognitive style, focal processing, ongoing task load, event-based prospective memory, TAP effect

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  • B844
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