Mechanisms Of PM

Question 1

What is the Preparatory Attention and Memory (PAM) theory
(Smith, 2003; 2008)

Answer 1

Remembering is entirely media by controlled attentional monitoring processes and that the speed of an ongoing tasks can be slowed down by an additional focal PM task

Question 2

What is the Multi-process theory of PM
(McDaniel & Einstein, 2000; 2007; Einstein & McDaniel, 2005)

Answer 2

the maintenance and retrieval of PM tasks require cognitive resources

Question 3

what are focal cues?

Answer 3

cues that participants must work with as part of an ongoing taks

Question 4

what are non-focal cues?

Answer 4

cues that need not be processed by participants during the course of an ongoing task

Question 5

Example of Focal vs. non-focal Event-based PM

Answer 5

task - name famous faces
focal - person called john
non- focal - person with glasses

Question 6

How did Scullin eliminate monitoring in Focal PM task?
Scullin et al. (2010; Experiment 4

Answer 6

the single target occured after 500 trials into the ongoing lexical decision task

Question 7

What is the Dynamic Multi-process Theory?
Scullin, McDaniel & Shelton, 2013

Answer 7

Evidence that, by default, PM retrieval may be spontaneous
But people can also engage in monitoring depending on circumstances

Question 8

What did Cona et al. (2016) Meta-analysis on Focal vs. Non-focal PM find regarding the networks for intention maintenance and retrieval?

Answer 8

In Non-focal PM – increased activity in aPFC and DLPC
In focal PM – Ventral parietal regions and Middle Frontal gyrus (BA 9)