PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sensory Memory, Information Processing, Frontal Lobe
10 Dec 2014
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Long-term memory: contains strategies helping us retain important information very well. Infants: memory is present but weak at birth, habituation/dishabituation. This research shows us that infants can hold memory trace for a few seconds: classical conditioning (blass et al. , 1984) 1-2 year old babies - put sugar water on lips and stroked forehead. When just stroking forehead, babies expected sugar water. Babies could associate two and retain information, for at least short time: memory improves with age, training (rovee-collier) 2 month olds remembered this for a few days, 3 month olds for a week, 6 month olds for 3 weeks: reactivation (rovee-collier) Enforcing a memory by reminding, not re-training. After training memory is forgotten, come back with mobile and move it around, but without string attached and baby restricted from kicking. Important to not attach string, as that would be retraining.
