Memory development Flashcards
Declarative memory
explicit memory
Infantile Amnesia
Not remembering childhood
Repression: Freud proposed we repress embarrassing sexual memories - breastfeeding etc
Cognitive approach - no sense of self so cant form memories
Pre-linguistic memories are hard to express using language
Child whose parent have an elaborative reminiscing style later report more and fuller childhood memories
Episodic
events
Semantic
Facts
Implicit memory development
Shows little improvement with age
Declarative memory
starts of less developed but then begins to improve rapidly
Visual self recognition test
Rouge test - red dot on nose, looking in mirror
Deferred imitation
just what is sounds like
piaget believe children could do this at 18 months
Verbatim memory
Contains accurate and detailed information about remembered stimuli
Gist memory
general semantic information about remembered stimuli
Children as witnesses
very influenced by interviewer
social compliance
cognitive incompetence - they come to believe reports because of limitations in processing and attention and language skills
Inability to source monitor
confabulation
Confabulation is a memory error defined as the production of fabricated, distorted, or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world, without the conscious intention to deceive.
