PSYC 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Hindsight Bias, Childhood Amnesia, Autobiographical Memory
18 Dec 2017
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The roots of memory are laid down in the first few months after birth. Young babies remember events for days or even weeks at a time. When shown novel actions with toys and later asked to imitate what they saw, toddlers can remember more than infants, and remember the actions for longer periods. Steady growth in memory for the first 18 months. The brain structures primarily responsible for the initial storage of information seem to develop very early by six months of age. First, as children grow, they use more effective strategies for remembering. Second, children"s growing factual knowledge of the world allows them to organize information more completely and therefore to remember better. A memory strategy = an action to promote remembering. Many memory strategies exist some help maintain information in working memory, while others help transfer information to long-term memory. Children begin to use memory strategies early: during the elementary-school years, children begin to use more effective strategies.
