PSY372H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Iconic Memory, Frontal Lobe, Sensory Memory
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The inability of remembering what happened when you are an infant. Infants spend more time on things that it is new to them. Increasing of the looking time is a way to tell new things. New: suck at a faster rate; old: suck slow rate. Kicking, if they remember the situation they kick more. The experimenter played a toy in front of the infant, and then after a delay, they will give the infant the same toy and see if the infant knows how to play it. To test infants, researchers have derived clever methods. This is needed because infants lack the ability to use language. Such methods include the looking method, the nonnutritive sucking method, the conjugate reinforcement method, and the elicited imitation method. Frontal lobe is not fully functioning till 1 year old. Different types of memory development are associated with various neurological development. Infants have iconic memory that can process 4-6 items before it decays away.
