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Southern Illinois University Carbondale

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2015

Psychology

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The Relation Between Self-Reported Alcohol And Cannabis Use And Prospective Memory In College Students, Emily Koberstein May 2015

The Relation Between Self-Reported Alcohol And Cannabis Use And Prospective Memory In College Students, Emily Koberstein

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Emily Koberstein, Stephanie Clancy Dollinger, Ph.d, & Sherrie Parks, M.A.

Department of Psychology

The Relation between Self-Reported Alcohol and Cannabis Use and Prospective Memory in College Students

The aim of this study is to see if there is a relation between drug use and prospective memory performance. Prospective memory is the ability to remember to do something in the future and is a vital aspect of everyday living. Prospective memory can be broken down into short-term, long-term and event-based or time-based components. Most research on prospective memory has primarily examined differences between young and old adults (e.g., Einstein & McDaniel, …