PY 352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Autobiographical Memory, Metacognition, Collectivism

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PY 352
• Professor: Carolyn Gibson

Document Summary

Individual differences: gender girls tend to have a more elaborate autobiographical memory, girls talk more about feelings and memories. Girls also talk earlier than boys: culture individualistic (children pushed to talk more about themselves) vs. collectivistic (children tend to talk more about groups not themselves) Inability to retrieve events that happened to us before age 2: may reflect the nonverbal nature of infants" and toddlers" memory processing, don"t have memory processing abilities to encode a memory before the age of 2. Read from left to right or right to left: sound-letter correspondence; phonological awareness, before learning to read, preschoolers develop emergent literacy, construct literacy through informal experiences. Fostering emergent literacy: language games, vocabulary, alphabet recognition, phonological skills, talk with adults about events, stories, etc, see adults reading and writing, visit places to see how language is used in everyday life. Informal literacy experiences: interactive reading, writing, training, books for low-ses families.