PSY312H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Communicative Competence, Metacognition, Procedural Knowledge
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Adults, like children, fail to remember what they saw, remember events that never happened, and combine separate experiences into a single composite. When asked open ended questions (without indicating that the questioner prefers a certain answer, asking specific questions soon after an initial event seems to protect memories from decaying more than it produces false recollections. Children remember more when they are encouraged to think deeply about the event; drawing fire station after visit caused them to think about it more deeply. Better at reporting events that they directly participated in. Expectations of the person asking the questions influence children"s memories. Infants do not possess memory strategies, they are ignorant about the workings of their own memory, and they lack knowledge of the world but they still manage to learn and remember a great deal bc of basic processes. Explicit and implicit memory: 9 year olds recognizing preschool classmates.
