Table 1.
Group frequencies of remembering strategies in a prospective memory task. Table from (101), with kind permission from the authors and the publishers of Child Neuropsychology, © 2005 Taylor & Francis Inc
| Group Frequencies (%) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strategy used | Children (age 7-10) | Adolescents (age 13-16) | Adults (age 18-21) |
| Don’t know/can’t remember | 3.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Remembered only when saw the cues | 73.3 | 37.9 | 73.3 |
| Thought about all the time/looked out for the cues | 23.3 | 48.9 | 20.0 |
| Thought about at the start, but with all the other things to think about, switched to remembering only with the cues | 0.0 | 10.3 | 3.3 |
| Remembered only when saw the cues at the start but, with the reminders, began to think about all the time and looked out for the cues | 0.0 | 3.4 | 3.3 |