PSY210H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Closed-Form Expression, Phonics, Habituation
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Chapter 7 cognitive processes and academic skills. Memory improves rapidly in older infants and toddlers. Young children may even have better autobiographical memory than previously believed. The brain structures primarily responsible for the initial storage of information seem to develop very early by six months of age. The structures responsible for retrieving these stored memories develop much later, into the second year. Part of the hippocampus is not mature until about 20 to 24 months. Development of memory during the first two years reflects growth in these two different brain regions. As the hippo(cid:272)a(cid:373)pus a(cid:374)d p(cid:396)ef(cid:396)o(cid:374)tal (cid:272)o(cid:396)te(cid:454) (cid:373)atu(cid:396)e o(cid:448)e(cid:396) the fi(cid:396)st (cid:1006)4 (cid:373)o(cid:374)ths, (cid:272)hild(cid:396)e(cid:374)"s (cid:373)e(cid:373)o(cid:396)(cid:455) skills gradually improve. When you study for exams, you may outline chapters in a text or highlight etc. Each of these actions is a memory strategy, an action to promote remembering. During the elementary school years, children begin to use more effective strategies.
