The SAM comprises items assessing self-reported episodic autobiographical, semantic, and spatial memory, as well as future prospection.
This analysis revealed dimensions corresponding to general mnemonic abilities (i.e., good vs poor memory across subtypes), spatial memory, and future prospection.
Race, E., Keane, M. M. & Verfaellie, M. Losing sight of the future: Impaired semantic prospection following medial temporal lobe lesions.
Principle 12 discusses the interaction of top-down and bottom-up processing in the formation of internal working models and prospections regarding future events.
When confronted with complex and challenging judgments (e.g., should I buy stocks or deposit my savings in the bank?), simulating future outcomes (i.e., prospection) on the basis of prior experience (i.e., retrospection) is a tactic that optimizes decision-making and behavioral selection [10] [12].
Recent psychological research has also examined futures thinking under the term prospection, which includes developing mental representations of a general or abstract state of the world ('semantic simulation') [29, 30].
This conflict of what to do during a commute is a matter of self-control, and those with higher levels of self-control are likely to engage in goal-directed prospection (a form of future-oriented thinking), thus canceling the negative effects of stressful commutes and preserving emotional well-being while simultaneously transitioning from a home to a work-related role.
A taxonomy of prospection:Introducing an organizational framework for future-oriented cognition.
Future research should be either more extensive (thorough archaeological prospection, more well-dated pollen profiles) or focused on special cases when both archaeological and pollen sites are next to each other.
Since future thinking is often goal-oriented and leads to greater activation of brain regions involved in prospection, goal-oriented EFT may be associated with greater reductions in DD than general goal-unrelated EFT.
That the past informs the future in this way (i.e., recollection-guides-simulation) is evidenced from research demonstrating that retrospection and prospection rely on largely overlapping neural structures and cognitive operations [3], [13], [14].
