PSYC1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Explicit Memory, Developmental Psychology, 6 Years
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Most people completely lack explicit memory for events before age three or four, a phenomenon known as infantile amnesia. Representational exibility is the ability to retrieve memories despite changes in the cues that were present at encoding (eichenbaum, 1997). First paper aged 10, phd aged 22. In uenced by prominent european psychologists such as binet and freud. Assumed children were mentally and physically active from birth - their activity greatly contributed to their development. Constructivism: children must knowledge themselves in response to experience. Child as a scientist: children generate hypotheses, perform experiments and draw conclusions from observations. Children often learn things by themselves (1964) Key concepts (will be tested in the exam so learn) Equilibration: equilibrium - all knowledge is accommodated in harmony (eg. seeing a new dog, disequilibrium - knew knowledge does not t with current system (eg. seeing a bear, equilibrium": knowledge structures (e. g schemas) altered to accommodate new information.
