PSYC 3P60 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Teddy Bear, Eyewitness Testimony, Metacognition
9 Mar 2016
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2 types: procedural (learned habits and skills implicit: cerebellum) ex. Declaraive (facts and autobiographical memory explicit: hippocampus, prefrontal cortex) If you have damage, you can get beter at kniing but can"t remember that i taught you to knit. Neurological structures related to improvements in long-term memory: *there are diferent stages of development of the hippocampus depending on the front, middle, back. *how the hippocampus looks difers across age (the dentate gyrus volume decreases with age which correlates with beter memory) 3 primary means of invesigaing infant memory: novelty preference paradigm (showing bear over and over unil they habituate and then show panda; they tend to look at the new one/panda) If there is a longer delay, kids will want to look at the familiar object. We can conclude that they have memory for the object bc ater delay they consistently choose one over the other: conjugate-reinforcement procedure (measures kicking rate; 3 month olds: 2 weeks; context maters)
