Confound-free Prospective Memory Proper Age Contrasts in Natural Settings by Cue Type (Event, Time).

Note. Confounds: o = ongoing task was easier for older adults; i = older adults were substantially more intelligent than younger adults; dem = older group had higher proportion of participants who scored in dementia range on screening tests; e(6y, 23o) = exclusion of subjects (6 young, 23 old) for various reasons; ep (0y,5o) = exclusion of subjects (0 young, 5 old) because of low ProM performance; item = participants were to request a personal item back but the items varied from participant to participant; #cues = number of ProM cues varied from participant to participant.Ongoing task: u/t = unrelated tasks; Q&A = questions and answers; PA = paired associates; WM = working memory; E&M STM = Einstein & McDaniel Short Term Memory task (WM task); WML3 = working memory task; WMLVar = working memory task.aPatton'93: ProM task was “to shut off the movie after exactly 30 min had elapsed”. However, the article reports only deviation from target shut off time in s. Since the article does not mention that any participants forget to shut off the movie, it is assumed that all did.