PSY 240 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Longitudinal Study, Habituation, Implicit Memory

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Psychology Main
• Course: PSY 240
• Professor: Rebecca Gomez

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Their actions become more goal-directed, and they begin to understand object permanence. B search error: deferred imitation: they can imitate actions they observed hours or days earlier. Imitation: infants have turned out to be better imitators than piaget thought, piaget underestimated the cognitive abilities of young infants. 5. 5: development of attention and memory: during the first 2 years, infants gradually increase the speed with which they habituate to a new stimulus. This is interpreted as faster encoding of the stimulus into memory: mobile task: involves implicit memory, which is the largely unconscious learning of a response or skill. In contrast, explicit memory refers to the conscious, deliberate recall of events or experiences. 5. 6: categorization: categories enable children and adults to focus their limited attention and memory on key pieces of information. Infants are habituated to a series of pictures belonging to one category followed by a picture showing either another member of the category or a member of another category.