Chapter 7.4 The Development of Memory

Question 1

Memory over time

Answer 1

Children’s memories increase in sophistication. Memory span increases with age (until 12), increase in conceptual understanding, develop meta memory skills

Question 2

meta memory

Answer 2

knowledge about our own memory abilities and limitations

Question 3

Infantile amnesia

Answer 3

Inability of adults to remember personal experience that took place before and early age. Hippocampus is only partially developed in infants, lack of sense of self.