PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 49: Deductive Reasoning, Kidk, Childhood Amnesia

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Daniel Levitin

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Collier:+ from+ a+ very+ young+ age,+ infants+ possess+ some+ type+ of+ rudimentary+ memory+ p. 485. + the+ memory+ retention+ test:+ if+ the+ baby+ recognizes+ the+ mobile,+ they+ will+ kick+ faster. + older+ infants+ remember+better;+by+18+months,+they+could+remember+for+several+weeks. + Infantile+amnesia:+the+inability+to+remember+events+form+early+childhood+(usually+before+4+years+ old). + some+ suggest+ that+ the+ ability+ to+ form+ memories+ arises+ with+ autobiographical+ memory+ others+with+language+acquisition. + Inaccurate+ memory:+ young+ children+ often+ have+ source+ amnesia. + early+ childhood+ memories+ aren"t+memories+of+the+actual+event,+but+that+of+movies,+stories,+picture+albums+children+also+ confabulate+(they+have+undeveloped+frontal+lobes). +it+happens+more+when+they+are+asked+about+ personal+ experience+ rather+ than+ general+ knowledge. + there+ are+ more+ disputed+ memories+ between+identical+twins+than+fraternal+twins. +most+of+them+occur+during+preschool,+when+source+ memory+is+developing. ++ Accommodation:+ the+ process+ by+ which+ a+ schema+ is+ changed+ to+ incorporate+ a+ new+ experience+ that+doesn"t+easily+fit+in+an+existing+schema+ Sensorimotor( stage( (birth( to( 2( years):+ acquisition+ of+ information+ through+ senses+ only. + as+ they+ begin+ to+ control+ their+ movements,+ they+ develop+ their+ 1st+ schema:+ conceptual+ model+ consisting+ of+mental+representations+of+the+kinds+of+actions+that+can+performed+on+certain+kinds+of+objects. + Piaget+ believed+ that+ eventually+ all+ the+ sensorimotor+ schemas+ merge+ into+ an+ explanatory+ schema:+ they+ learn+ they+ can+ act+ on+ objects,+ manipulate+ them+ to+ understand+ them+ rather+ than+ simply+reacting+to+them. + Object+permanency:+the+understanding+that+an+object+continues+to+exist+even+when+it+can"t+be+ seen+ (starting+ at+ 9+ months,+ children+ search+ for+ hidden+ objects). + full+ accomplishment+ of+ object+ permanency+is+a+key+accomplishment+to+the+1st+stage+of+development+