8. Memory Development Flashcards
Autobiographical memory
Personal and long-lasting memories that are the basis of one’s personal life history
Conjungate-reinforcement procedure
Conditioning procedure used in memory research with infants in which children’s behaviors control aspects of a visual display
Declarative memory
Facts and events stored in the long-term memory, which come in two types; episodic and semantic memory; see also explicit memory; contrast with non declarative memory
Deferred imitation
Imitation of a modeled act sometime after viewing the behavior
Dentate gyrus
Part of the hippocampus that continues to develop after birth and plays an important role in memory
Episodic memory
Long-term memory of events or episodes; contrast with semantic memory; see also autobiographical memory, event memory
Event memory
Memory for everyday events, a form of episodic memory
Infantile amnesia
The inability to remember events from infancy and early childhood
Nondeclarative (or procedural or implicit) memory
Knowledge in the long-term store of procedures that is unconscious; contrast with declarative memory
Preference-for-novelty paradigms
Tasks in which an infant’s preference, usually measured in looking time, for a novel as opposed to a familiar stimulus is used as an indication of memory for the familiar stimulus
Prospective memory
Remembering to do something in the future
Scripts
A form of schematic organization, with real-world events organized in terms of temporal and causal relations between component acts
Semantic memory
Long-term memory representation of definitions and relations among language terms; contrast with episodic memory
Source monitoring
The awareness of the origins of one’s memories, knowledge, or beliefs
