PSY372H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Episodic Memory, Memory Span, Language Development
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Language development: inability to organize information into a coherent life narrative, and then can help to retrieval. However, later when the infants is verbal, those memory was not able to transmitted into verbal, because they are hard for retrieval. Culture can influence the age of what they remember: Mother who talks the past more likely to have earlier memory. American kids have memory earlier than asian kids, because they are more influenced by the individualistic view of the self. Freud thought that this was a period of catastrophic forgetting, a genuine amnesia, in which people actively represses memories. More modern theories suggest that this is not a genuine amnesia but an immature ability to form conscious, personal event memories. These multiple causes converge, along elements of culture, to help infants move from not being able to remember events for long to being able to reliably retain memories. A children age, there is an increase speed of both visual-spatial working memory.
