ECON 1B03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Frontal Lobe, Dual Process Theory, Prefrontal Cortex

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Economics
• Course: ECON 1B03
• Professor: Hannah Holmes

Document Summary

The brain structures primarily responsible for the initial storage of information (hippocampus and amygdala) seem to develop really early (by 6 months) However, the structure responsible for retrieving these stored memories (the frontal cortex) develops much later into the 2nd year. Also, part of the hippocampus is not fully developed until 2 years. So as the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex mature over the first 2 years, children"s memory skills gradually improve. In addition, children"s growing factual knowledge of the world allows them to organize information more completely, and therefore to remember better. Anything not transferred from working memory to long-term memory will be lost, just as those unsaved words vanished from the computer"s memory with power failure. Memory strategies techniques of activities that improve remembering. External supports are all of the things you use to help you remember things (e. g. calendars, phone books, to-do lists) Internal supports include: touching/looking, rehearsing, organizing, elaborating, chunking, and concept mapping.