Table 2.

Overview of lab-based testing session listing all performed activities and indicating which activity instructions comprised a PM target cue (for the pencil or token task, respectively) and when the time-based PM task had to be performed

In the pencil task, participants were asked to repeat the words “blue pen” whenever the experimenter used them. In the token task, participants were asked to take a token out of a drawer whenever the instruction of a new task started with the sentence “The next task concerns memory”. In the time-based task, participants were asked to remember to tell the experimenter when 10 and 20 min had passed