The Impact Of Mission On The Expectation Memory Of College Students In Different Time

Prospective memory refers to an individual’s memory of the behaviors which hewill perform in future, which is also the memory of a certain intention and plan infuture. Time management disposition is one’s psychological and behavioralcharacteristics concerned with the function and value of time and the way of using oftime. Prospective memory and time management disposition both involve the planand performance of future (about intention or time). Combining these two together,this study not only can help us to understand the cognitive characteristic of ourmemory, but also help us to specifically improve our skills and ability of planningthings.Regarding college students as subjects, this study adopts the method of dual-taskparadigm, the classical experiment form of prospective memory, discussing the effectof the importance of prospective tasks, task type and time management disposition onthe performance of prospective memory. This study includes two experiments:experiment one discusses, under the background of a single task, the influence of theimportance of task on prospective memory of college students who have differenttime management disposition; experiment two discusses, under the background ofmulti-tasks, the influence of the importance of task on prospective memory of collegestudents who have different time management disposition. Through analysis anddiscussion, the following conclusions are made:(1) The prospective memory task type has a significant impact on prospectivememory performance. The performance of event-based prospective memory issignificantly higher than that of time-based prospective memory, and the reactiontime of the former is significantly longer than that of the latter.(2) The task importance of prospective memory has an extremely significanteffect on the performance of prospective memory. The group with important tasksfinishes prospective memory task with high accuracy and short reaction time; whilethe group with non-important tasks finishes prospective memory task with low accuracy and long reaction time. The difference between the two groups issignificant.(3) Time management disposition has significant influence on the performanceof prospective memory. The higher the participants’ time management disposition is,the better their performance of prospective memory task will be. However, timemanagement disposition has no significant effect on their reaction of prospectivetasks.(4) Under the background of complex tasks, there is a difference between theeffects of task importance on different task types of prospective memory. The effectof task importance on event-based prospective memory is significant, while that ontime-based prospective memory is not significant.