In Dismukes’ article, Prospective Memory in Workplace and Everyday Situations, he discusses the demand for further laboratory research on prospective memory tasks to evaluate the reasons behind memory task failure and better propose effective tools to enhance one’s memory to perform future tasks. He proposes interruptions, disrupted habitual tasks, habit capture and multitasking could be potential risk factors to one’s …show more content…
185). Suggestions include: avoid giving into distractions from a task if possible, create reminders, pause to encode your current task when interrupted, avoid multitasking when the importance of one task exceedingly outweighs other tasks, link future tasks to daily habits or occurrences, and use of external memory aids. The author notes studies have found cues for prospective memory task work better when they are distinctive, salient or unusual and that cues which consisted of words resulted in better performance than those which required syllable