PSY 230 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7-9: Joint Attention, Soltyrei, Frontal Lobe
28 Nov 2018
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Chapter 7: cognitive processes and academic skills (7. 1) memory. The roots of memory are laid down soon after birth. Young babies remember events for days or even weeks at a time. Rovee-collier attached a ribbon from a mobile to a 2- or 3-month old"s leg; within a few minutes, babies learned to kick to make the mobile move. Rovee-collier brough the mobile to the infants" homes several days or a few weeks later, babies would still kick to make the mobile move. However, if rovee-collier waited several weeks to return, most babies forgot that kicking moved the mobile. When that happened, she gave them a reminder- she moved the mobile herself without attaching the ribbon to the infant"s foot. Then she would return the next day, hook up the apparatus, and the babies would kick to move the mobile. Rovee-collier"s experiments show that three important features of memory exist as early as 2 and 3 months of age:
