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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Apr 19.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychol. 2010 Jan;46(1):230–244. doi: 10.1037/a0017100

Appendix.

Response Category Frequencies

Response Type
Age Group
Item Type
Match Non-Match PM Response
7-year-olds PM Target, Color Matches 23 19 60
PM Target, Color Does Not Match 18 25 59
Distractor, Color Match 684 298 38
Distractor, Color Does Not Match 195 799 26
10-year-olds PM Target, Color Matches 18 5 88
PM Target, Color Does Not Match 5 12 94
Distractor, Color Matches 931 167 12
Distractor, Color Does Not Match 163 936 11
Adults PM Target, Color Matches 0 0 69
PM Target, Color Does Not Match 2 1 66
Distractor, Color Matches 617 68 5
Distractor, Color Does Not Match 85 600 5

Note: PM = prospective memory. Empty cells were replaced by 1 when modeling the data.