Prospective and retrospective time estimation

Percept Mot Skills. 1991 Dec;73(3 Pt 2):1157-8. doi: 10.2466/pms.1991.73.3f.1157.

Abstract

30 students, when performing a task that required listening to 19 sentences for 150 sec., overestimated the duration of the task less in the prospective condition than in the retrospective one (46 sec. vs 85 sec.).

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Attention*
  • Discrimination Learning
  • Humans
  • Mental Recall*
  • Set, Psychology
  • Time Perception*
  • Verbal Learning*