PSY312H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Childhood Amnesia, Episodic Memory, 18 Months
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Psy312 week 9 memory: our earliest (cid:373)e(cid:373)ories , usually 2 -3 years old, tend to be very positive or very negative, often they involve things that have pictures or videos or other pieces of evidence to confirm it. (cid:272)ould (cid:271)e that (cid:449)e"re (cid:374)ot encoding memories in the same way, (cid:449)e"re not encoding memories at all, etc. at ages before 3 years. I. e. they could only verbally say which animals went into the machine if those animals were part of their lexicon in the initial testing (i. e. at their younger ages) I. e. if (cid:862)(cid:271)ear(cid:863) (cid:449)as i(cid:374) (cid:271)oth the old a(cid:374)d (cid:374)e(cid:449) le(cid:454)i(cid:272)o(cid:374) (cid:894)after the 6-month or 1-year delay), the(cid:374) the(cid:455)"re a(cid:271)le to (cid:448)er(cid:271)all(cid:455) sa(cid:455) the (cid:271)ear (cid:449)e(cid:374)t i(cid:374) If you ask children to relabel the cards (i. e. what is the shape of the card), performance increases: having them simply review the rule does(cid:374)"t help (cid:271)(cid:455) this logi(cid:272, difficulty in abstract representation of the rule, working memory.
