Psychology 2040A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Memory Span, Episodic Memory, 8 Seconds
5 Nov 2018
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Sustaining attention one of the most obvious developmental trends is the dramatic increase in the child"s ability to sustain attention on some activity or set of stimuli. Experiment: observing children of di age groups looking at toys one year olds = 3 seconds. -> maturation of the cns is partly responsible another factor my be the increasing complexity of the child"s interest. Selective attention older children are much more likely that younger children to ignore info that is irrelevant or distracts from some central activity or problem. The development of memory memory is far from a simple or unitary construct one distinction is drawn between episodic and semantic memory episodic memory: memory for events that occurred at speci c time and place in the past (ex. Recognition memory habituation and operant conditioning have been useful in answering questions. Habituation experiment on infant recognition memory (paired-comparison procedure):
