Episodic prospection develops over an extended period and may support academic behaviors aimed at envisioned future selves¶

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q2 i? Episodic prospection—the ability to form a mental representation of a personal future event—shows prolonged development supported by memory ability, the hippocampus, and self-concept, and may promote academic behaviors such as completing homework and studying for exams. → Fandakova 2016

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Fandakova 2016¶

Fandakova, Yana; Bunge, Silvia A. (2016). What Connections Can We Draw Between Research on Long-Term Memory and Student Learning? Mind, Brain and Education, 10(3). https://doi.org/10.1111/mbe.12123

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Claim from the Prabhakar, Coughlin, and Ghetti review article as summarized in this introduction. Memory ability and the hippocampus retrieve and recombine details from past experiences to form representations of future events; self-concept development guides which past events are included in imagining the future.

"students with more developed episodic prospection may engage in academic behaviors that they believe are likely to promote the future selves they envision, such as completing homework and studying for exams."

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