How did I remember to do that? Self-reported strategy use for laboratory prospective memory tasks.

The role of metacognition in prospective memory (PM) has received relatively little attention. This study combined data from several experiments to identify the strategy repertoire employed during a classic laboratory PM task and to determine whether self-reported strategy was related to performance. Participants ( = 668) completed either a focal or nonfocal PM task embedded in an ongoing lexical decision task.