CPSY 4343 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Eyewitness Memory, Autobiographical Memory, Metacognition
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9: perception, attention, and memory in middle childhood. Perceptual learning: learning what aspects of the stimulus to attend to. Children are in many ways universal novices- can explain wat looks to be a developmental defect. As children grow, they become better at perceiving the face holistically. Caused by perceptual learning- become better at extracting subtle differences. Over the first ten years of childhood learn what features to focus on to distinguish between typical and atypical faces. Younger children show no own-race recognition advantage. Global processing: when the stimulus is processed in terms of the large, overall shape. Local processing: when attention is directed to the smaller shapes. Recent research suggests that they may involve separate mechanisms. Global processing may be more vulnerable to the conditions of a perceptual task. Attaining the adult-like efficiency may happen later than local. Selective attention and executive function processing: ability to ignore distracting stimuli increases dramatically between the ages of 5 and 7, attentional networks:
