ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the methods that have been used to assess the incidence of prospective memory in the real world, or everyday prospective memory. It discusses some approaches to understanding the factors and processes that impact and support prospective remembering. The chapter considers naturalistic methods, which are thought to provide relatively good external validity and laboratory methods, which provide good control and thus good internal validity. It also considers functional neuroimaging and electrophysiological approaches, in which the neural correlates of prospective remembering are assessed. The chapter provides forms of clinical assessment, which are used in the evaluation of prospective memory function in various special populations. A search of the PsycInfo database shows that the number of citations with "prospective memory" either in the Title or as a Keyword rose from a mere 4 between 1985 and 1989 to an impressive 484 between 2010 and 2014.
