FIGURE 2.

Recent minimalist paradigms for investigating basic mechanisms of prospection. (i) Placing one hand under each opening from the forked tube demonstrates a capacity to prepare for two mutually possible future events, thereby demonstrating the rudiments of advanced ‘contingency planning’ (Redshaw and Suddendorf, 2016). (ii) In a reminder-setting task, participants drag numbered circles in ascending order to the bottom of the box. They must also remember to carry out either one or three alternative actions for specific numbers (dragging them to a particular edge) (A,B). In some conditions, participants have the option of dragging the target circles to the relevant edge of the box at the beginning of the trial – a reminder setting strategy (C). If participants do pursue this option, then – after dragging non-target circles to the bottom of the box (D,E) – the new location of the target circles will remind them of the required action (F) (Redshaw et al., 2018). Child Development © 2018 Society for Research in Child Development, Inc. All rights reserved. 0009-3920/2018/8906-0015.