PSY 2105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Recognition Memory, Dishabituation, Mnemonic

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2105
• Professor: Julie Desjardins

Document Summary

Considers the psychological activities that allow children to deal with new. The information-processing view can be modeled using : Specifies an input and an output, with processing in between. Starts with input, has programmed conversions, and has multiple outputs information. Evidence in support of memory processing in infants. Sensorimotor infant uses a familiar scheme (sucking, grasping) when presented with a familiar object. Infants search for objects that have been hidden from view. Infants show a preference for their mother"s voice. The understanding that a current stimulus has been encountered in the past. E. g. the recognition that a person has seen a photograph in the past. Retrieval of some past stimulus when the stimulus is not present. Describe 3 examples of evidence for memory processes in infants. The infant is exposed repeatedly to a stimulus until looking at the stimulus stops creating a response/reaction. This habituation is only possible if the infant remembers the stimulus.