Cognitive processes in the Breakfast Task: Planning and monitoring.

• DOI: 10.1037/cep0000054
• Publication Date: 2015-05-04T15:20:12Z
• Authors: Nathan S. Rose; Lin Luo; Ellen Bialystok; Alexandra Hering; Karen Lau; Fergus I. M. Craik
• Keywords: Prospective Memory; Component (thermodynamics); Sample (material); Task Analysis

The Breakfast Task (Craik & Bialystok, 2006) is a computerized task that simulates the planning and monitoring requirements involved in cooking breakfast, an everyday activity important for functional independence. In Experiment 1, 28 adults performed Task, outcome measures were examined with principal component analysis to elucidate structure of cognitive processes underlying performance. Analyses revealed 2-component which putatively captured global local abilities. 2, performance was cross-validated on new sample 59 healthy older who also tests assessing working memory, processing speed, inhibition, reasoning prospective memory. Factor analyses showed from significantly correlated individual differences executive functions but independent such functions. provides fast, enjoyable, lifelike assessment complex monitoring, their as memory