Table 3.
Ongoing task item recognition performance and perceived task importance in Experiment 2.
| Ongoing-Task-Item Recognition | Importance Estimates | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hit Rates | False-Alarm Rates | Pr | OT | PM | OT/PM | ||||
| Words | Nonwords | Words | Nonwords | Words | Nonwords | ||||
| Loss | 0.70 (0.04) | 0.68 (0.04) | 0.40 (0.03) | 0.21 (0.03) | 0.38 (0.04) | 0.47 (0.05) | 80 (4) | 91 (3) | 58 (3) |
| Gain | 0.76 (0.04) | 0.71 (0.03) | 0.41 (0.04) | 0.17 (0.03) | 0.34 (0.05) | 0.54 (0.03) | 75 (5) | 93 (2) | 65 (3) |
| Control | 0.71 (0.04) | 0.68 (0.04) | 0.39 (0.03) | 0.16 (0.02) | 0.33 (0.04) | 0.51 (0.04) | 83 (4) | 91 (2) | 56 (3) |
Note. Pr = hit rate—false alarm rate, OT = ongoing task, PM = prospective memory, PM/OT = importance of the prospective-memory task relative to the ongoing task. Standard errors are presented in parentheses.