Prospective memory in children aged 5 to 12 years-complexity of the three-order prospective index task

¹ Man, Societies and Values, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences Ibn Tofail University, Kenitra MOROCCO
² Man, Societies and Values, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences Ibn Tofail University, Kenitra MOROCCO

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Abstract

This study focuses on prospective memory in children aged 5 to 12. For this research, we based our work on the studies of Wang et all, published on 30/04/2008. Our sample consisted of 120 students aged 5 to 12, recruited from the “Jardin Enchanté” and “Paradis d’Enfants” private schools in Kenitra (Morocco). Our aim was to study the effect of task complexity on children’s prospective memory performance. Existing literature has yielded somewhat contradictory results regarding the effect of task complexity on prospective memory performance. Our objective was therefore to highlight the effect of task complexity on prospective memory, as well as the development of latency times during this experiment. This study falls within the field of developmental psychology, which seeks to understand the development of prospective memory. In this experiment, task complexity with three levels of prospective cue order (2nd, 7th, and 11th order) had no effect on children’s performance. However, for the latency time across the four experiments, we found a clear improvement with increasing age. The question of task difficulty in this context could be the subject of future studies, particularly for the 9-year-old and 11-year-old age groups