Prospective Memory for Future Intentions

Prospective memory plays an important role in everyday life. Research methods, type of prospective memory, components of prospective memory and factors which influence on the prospective memory tasks are discussed. Frequency and priming are important factors in the encoding process, and familiarity and distinctiveness have influences on the retrieval process. Specificity is also important in both encoding and retrieval processes. Performance of prospective memory tasks is also influenced by motivation, time, external and internal cues and monitoring.